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Posted by 333 on February 10, 2004 at 12:16:17 from (207.177.83.76):
In Reply to: Tractor accidents posted by Joe on February 10, 2004 at 10:24:05:
about twenty years ago, around 1983, I was farming and working for my dad on his dairy farm, I lived across the road on a non busy highway. We had a Versatile 150 biderectional and I was scooping snow, I went to go across the road to my place and didn't look, my fault, All I saw was a truck, It hit me broadside on the cab, it was a gas truck, diesel fuel and gas. I got pushed in the ditch, hit my head on the side post, sure wish it had padding, it didn't, compound skull fracture My wife happened home about that time and saw me bleeding on the lawn, my parents standing round, thought I was dead, lost a lot of blood, had seizeres for awhile but ok now, I can still feel that indentation on my head, spent some time in hospital and rochester Minn. gas truck totaled, tractor got a new wheel and brand new loader, insurance paid for it what a deal, lucky it was slick or probably been dead, it was fun riding in ambulance, but not the stitches. , or the hospital stay, got a ticket for failure to yield
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