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Sentence in question: そこを、対向車線を走る車が、もうスピードですれちがっていく

=> "vehicles, which drive there (=this road) on the opposite lane, pass by
with extreme speed."

There are 2 を which both connect the noun to an intransitive verb expressing
movement. This use of を is always a bit confusing to me, So I just wanted to
ask for confirmation wether I got it right or not. Especially the first を in
そこを gives me a headache. そこ clearly refers to the 高速道路 from before, but I'm
not so sure wether the first を attaches to すれちがっていく or 走る? I think a relation
to 走る would make more sense.

Furthermore, I'm not sure about why in ちがっていく , 行く or 来る should be used at
all? AFAIK they usually indicate that something is moving towards or away from
the speaker. If the verb is used in this function here, then I wonder why 行く
should be preferred over 来る in this context. After all, the object passing by
first needs to approach you and then move away from you again.
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How do these two を relate to the respective verbs?
* Yes this そこ refers to the 高速道路.
  * Both of the two を are [location markers used with intransitive verbs](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3243/5010). そこを modifies the main verb すれ違っていく. 対向車線を modifies 走る in a relative clause that modifies 車. As far as I understand, one verb can never take more than one を.
  * すれ違っていく is [すれ違う](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3243/5010) followed by a [subsidiary verb 行く](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/676/5010) that describes some physical/emotional movement away from the speaker. In this case, 行く is a neutral choice that simply expresses cars going away from the speaker after the action of すれ違う. すれ違ってくる ("coming close to pass me") focuses on the approaching cars, and it would sound as if the speaker is scared by every car on the opposite lane. I know this paragraph is about the anxiety of the speaker, but すれ違っていく itself is used to describe an objective fact.
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