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Show FARM VEHICLES EFFECTED Utah Safety Council Explains Advantages Of Hew Lws Requiring Signalling, Lighting "Danger must be seen to be avoided i" This is the word of caution and advice from Utah Safety Council, Coun-cil, with special meaning to farm vehicles, as a result of new laws enacted this year by the Legislature. Legis-lature. These laws are now in effect, but many far infractors, wagon, combines, spreaders, discs, and other farm husbandry vehicles have not yet been equipped with the required lighting devices under un-der such laws. TiUe 41-6-70, for example, requires re-quires either electrical or mech-anical mech-anical turn signal devices on vehicles when the distance from the center of the steering post to the outside Jimit of the body or cab exceeds 24 inches, or the distance dis-tance from the steering wheel to the rear of the body or load exceeds 14 feet. Many farm vehicles ve-hicles are included in this provision pro-vision of the law. Headlamps and tail lamps of specified quality are also required requir-ed of certain farm vehicles under un-der provisions of Title 41-6-120. Every farm tractor and every self-propeller farm equipment unit or implement of husbandry not equipped with an electric lighting system must be equipped equip-ped with at least one lamp displaying dis-playing a white light visible at least 500 feet to the front of such vehicle and also a red light visible at least 500 feet to the rear of such vehicle under provisions pro-visions of Title 41-6-130 of the new Utah law. The same section also requires single or multiple-beam multiple-beam headlambs under certain conditions, and makes special reference to towed units of farm equipment. Animal-drawn equipment equip-ment must also meet certain requirements re-quirements under this section. The Safety Council, in pointing out these new requirements', recalled re-called a recent tragic accident involving un unlighted wagon being towed by a tractor. The farmer noticed the lights of an approaching car and edged his vehicle further towards the road edge but not far enough. In the semi -darkness, the driver of the car failed to see the unlighted rear of the slow-moving equipment. equip-ment. The crash that fcjlowed left the farmer dead and the motorist mot-orist seriously injured. "We know that proper lighting equipment on such farm vehicles will prevent many similar mishaps mis-haps in the future, and that is the purpose of these new laws," said G. Ernest Bourne, safety council executive secretary, "and we, therfore, hope that all farm people and farm organizations will widely publicize and promote pro-mote these laws so that these safety features will be provided on their vehicles for their own protection." |