Show tractor safe safely ty Is important ant tractor accidents are increasing the reason for that might be twofold two fold told first the operator of a tractor may not know the principles of sate safe operation another reason might be his attitude ot of mental alert alertness nesi many of us are ate not aware of many of the dangers associated with a tractor we WA attempt to operate it especially on the highway as we do our automobile the a automobile is designed tor for rel ashely fast operation while a tractor is not it has a narrow wheel base and a high center of gravity which allows it to tip easily also when not properly hitched to the load a tractor may rear over backwards usually ty p pinning inning the operator underneath der neath over one third of the fatal tractor accidents that occurred in minnesota and iowa from 1949 51 were on the highway considering the small portion of time that is spent on highways with a tractor tractors it is obvious that the number of fatal accidents involving tractors are at a much higher rate than accidents occurring on regular farm work in another state of 19 fatalities involving tractors and automobiles 18 were tractor operators slow moving vehicles on highways should have something on them to indicate to automobile drivers that there is a slow moving vehicle ahead many times the driver of 0 a second car behind a tractor cannot see the tractor because of the car in front of his automobile drivers should be more alert to the dangers that exist when there is a slow moving vehicle on the highway if we could put into practice all the safety rules we know many of our accidents could be avoided remember that no ac so aident occurs unless some someone oric performs an unsafe act |