Posted by PJH on November 08, 2011 at 16:11:37 from (50.40.190.163):
In Reply to: Be Careful out there posted by CCer on November 08, 2011 at 14:36:26:
I came up on an accident a few years ago, involving a drill pulled by a pretty good sized and fairly new John Deere cab tractor. The driver of the overtaking vehicle hit the far left rear corner of the drill and it flipped the tractor onto it's right side. A local teenager was driving the tractor, and thankfully no one was seriously hurt - the young man only had a few scratches and bruises. I couldn't believe a tractor could be flipped over that easily. Everything had to be just right for it to happen - or just wrong, whichever way you want look at it. If I remember correctly, the overtaking vehicle thought he could pass, albeit in a no passing zone, and after he was committed, an oncoming car popped over the rise and he had to try to get back in behind the drill. Couldn't do it. The drill was new, and both it and the tractor was clean as a hounds tooth. Things happen fast.
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