JD, Yes it's sad when someone gets killed. There seems to be more sympathy for someone who gets killed on a tractor than someone who dies in a car. On the average over 100 people die everyday in car accidents.
When I was a kid, neighbour driving a tractor on US30, a 4 lane highway that has no restrictions, got ran over by a semi. It took his head off.
I know first hand how dangerous tractors with loader are. I was still in HS when I was putting logs on a truck to take to sawmill with a Farmall H, narrow front end, pipe loader. I flipped the tractor and went flying. Good thing rear tire hit a very large log to stop tractor from crushing me.
When I post about people getting killed on I-70 by a semi not slowing down at a construction site, some people on YT don't shive a get. Some wish I didn't post the deaths. I think all human life is valuable, but others her don't.
Do we want to get lawmakers telling us that farm kids shouldn't be operating farm equipment?
ROP on ZTR's don't seem to be 100% effective, especially when most people run with them folded down. Some don't use the seat belts.
I don't have the answer how to stop it. The unfortunate truth is that people are getting killed on almost anything with wheels.
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