"at" is slightly ambiguous 11:20 Aug 24, 2010
The roads in Russia are marked in the same way as in most other countries: by kilometre markers. In the old days (before the age of divided highways), the marker posts were placed on one side of the road and they carried metal plaques bent at a 90-degree angle, so that one of the two faces could be seen from the outbound lane, while the other was facing the inbound lane. The number seen on the outbound (near) lane, N, indicated the end of the N-th kilometre measured from the town centre where the road started. The number facing the inbound lane, N+1, indicated the start of the N+1st kilometre.
The expression "at the N-th kilometre" can be read in two ways:
1. Somewhere between N-1 and N (the official reading)
2. Somewhere around the N-th kilometre marker.
Whatever the interpretation, the error is not that great: the accident site would probably be visible from either location.
M_S: the person using this expression is deffinitely referring to a marked road; on unmarked roads, the distances are usually given relative to landmarks.
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