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Originally Posted by Capt.Steubing
You a farmer Hickey?
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Yep. Grain farmer in central Illinois. I've never seen a motorcycle vs. farm equpiment accident yet, and I hope I never do. It is bad enough with just cars -- these almost always invlove serious injury if not death of the car driver. I'd say most of these accidents come in one of two forms. Car driver misjudges the speed and rear-ends the farm machine. Car driver fails to notice that the farm machine is about to make a left turn and decides to pass at that time. Both of these have ugly consequences.
In the last few years it seems like there are getting to be more of these accidents. The car traffic on many of the rural roads around here has been increasing. More and more people moving to nice little houses out in the country and commuting to work, I guess. I don't have a problem with that at all. I just wish everyone out there on rural roads would be more cautious, farmers included.
