LANCASTER COUNTY, S.C. -- Penny Collins watches as speeding cars and big rigs blow through her Indian Land neighborhood. She said Highway 75 is a dangerous stretch of road in Lancaster County.

"You can't see anything. You can't! You can't turn onto this road without some cars flying around the curves," Collins said.

Wednesday morning, she and a half-dozen neighbors stood on an embankment watching crews clean up after a major accident shut down the road for six hours.

Troopers said a woman driving a minivan tried to turn left off Highway 75 onto Hector Road. For some reason, she didn't see the 18-wheeler hauling wood chips that was coming toward her.

She turned in front of the truck, and it slammed into the back of her van, sending it spinning. The tractor trailer skidded and then flipped over in the road, spilling 40 tons of wood chips across the highway about 6 inches deep.

"It was just boom!" said Jerry Adams, who heard the crash at about 8 a.m.

"It's bad -- real dangerous," he said of Highway 75.

State troopers told Eyewitness News that statistics don't show that the road is more dangerous than any other. Trooper Jeff Gaskin said Highway 75 doesn't even make the top 25 on the list of the most dangerous roads in the county. He said troopers do patrol back roads and answer every complaint they receive, but they must handle the busiest roads first.

"Anything can happen anywhere, and we're totally aware of that," Gaskin said. "But we put troopers on the roads that have the highest collision count, the highest fatality count."

Gaskin said in Lancaster County, that's Highway 521, Highway 5, State Road 522, Highway 9 and Highway 200.

"To say that some of the smaller back roads don't get as much attention as the primary roads could be a safe statement to make," Gaskin said.

A limited number of troopers patrolling the county means officers must focus on where the most problems are, he said.

However, Collins and her neighbors said it's only a matter of time before Highway 75 is a problem, too.

"If they don't slow down, somebody's going to get killed before anybody does anything to slow the traffic down," Collins said. "Maybe if they give enough tickets out, that'll slow (the drivers) down. Who knows?"

Fortunately, no one was hurt in the accident Wednesday. The driver of the minivan is charged with failure to yield while making a turn.

The 18-wheeler was coming from North Carolina to the Bowater Paper Plant near the Catawba River.