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Posted by Hal/WA on April 28, 2002 at 18:28:04 from (208.8.194.16):
I just got back from a little trip to Montana. Yesterday morning, I came across an accident scene near Dixon that kind of chilled me. Down in the ditch a couple of hundred yards from the accident scene was the rear axle and wheels to a tractor. As I slowed down to pass the scene, I saw the rest of the 1980's style John Deere with a loader all broken up. There was a lot of hay around the scene. I hoped that the tractor had been being hauled and that no one was hurt. This morning I heard that the tractor driver was in the hospital in Missoula. Apparently he had been driving down the highway with hay to feed his stock and had been hit by a semi. The talk was that the tractor driver had every right to be where he was, and that maybe the semi driver went to sleep at the wheel. It is unknown if the tractor driver, a well-known farmer who has probably used his tractor on that road for years, will survive, or if he does survive, whether this will end his farming days. The highway is wide and the view is not very obstructed at the point of the accident. The posted speed limit is 70 miles per hour, and most traffic goes at least as fast as that. I did not witness the accident, but looking at the damage to the tractor, I suspect the semi hit the tractor from behind. It must have been quite an impact to break off the rear axle. I am reporting this incident to remind everyone that the highway may well be the most dangerous place anywhere to drive a tractor. Be careful out there!!!
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