Claim: North Carolina Highway 3 (numbered after Dale Earnhardt who was driving car #3 when he died at the 2001 Daytona 500) runs from US 601 in southern Concord, through Morresville to US 29 in Kannapolis.
Evidence: It is numbered after Dale Earnhardt, the NASCAR driver, who was driving the #3 car when he died at the 2001 Daytona 500. NC 3's southern terminus is in Concord, at NC 73. From there, NC 3 travels north through Kannapolis and on to Mooresville. After meandering through downtown Mooresville and switching roads multiple times, NC 3 meets its northern terminus at Plaza Drive (NC 150).