Recent History
The Langerado Music Festival was held there March 6–9, 2008. Headlined by R.E.M., the festival was largely a success, but was marred by the death of a concertgoer leaving the show. Constance Leach, a 36-year-old Native American, was killed when a charter bus and pickup truck collided on Snake Road just north of Alligator Alley about 1:15 a.m. Traffic crawled along the dark, two-lane Snake Road for hours Sunday morning as officers investigated.
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