Ag equipment is back on the road, and Kansas State is warning drivers to stay alert. Tractors, sprayers, and combines can pose serious risks when they meet passenger vehicles.
According to Ed Brokesh, “Farmers are in the field and between now and October, we have a rise in crashes between personal vehicles and agricultural equipment. And unfortunately, for personal vehicles when they have a collision with agricultural equipment, the personal vehicle comes out, or the smaller vehicles, come out on the worse end of it, and it often results in an injury or, unfortunately, many times, a fatality.”
The Top 5 Most Common Accidents For Ag Equipment:
- Rear End Collisions
- Left Turn Collisions
- Fixed Object Collisions
- Side Swipes
- Crashes At Intersections
“If we’re driving agricultural equipment on the road, we need to pay attention to the stop signs and follow the rules of the road that we’ve learned in Drivers Ed and such. I mean, they apply to us. If you run a stop sign in your tractor in front of a Highway Patrolman, more than likely, he is going to pull you over and you’re going to get a ticket for it. And yes, you do have a load that you’re trying to deal with, and there’s a lot that goes into it, and we understand that, but do understand that you do have to follow the rules of the road,” he adds.
