[AT] tractor wreck

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Mon Sep 25 11:39:27 PDT 2006


Ed,  I didn't mean to be picking on PA.  It's the same everywhere I'm sure. 
But I just don't think I'll ever get over the way those folks ran that Amish 
buggy off the road and seemed not to care any more than if it had been a big 
rat.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Stewart" <edstewart1 at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] tractor wreck


> Well Charlie, it seems to me that there are a lot of ignorant people in 
> Pennsylvania. Their are a fairly large number of Amish family around here. 
> 30 or so years ago they seemed unfriendly to outsiders , but now they are 
> a nice lot of people, I have several that I have got to know and they are 
> a-ok in my book. They are excellent farmers. The young couple that got hit 
> 2 nights ago were visable for several hundred yards to the rear on one of 
> the local backroads that 35 mph is more than fast enough to drive on. The 
> man and his wife are in critical condition in the Altoona. Pa hospital 
> where they were life flighted to and their baby didn't make it. So the 
> driver who hit them has that to live with. I can't seem to go anywhere 
> anymore without someone 20 feet behind me trying to push and I try to stay 
> at the speed limit. there can be a bunch of snow on the road or raining 
> like hell and they still pass even in no passing zones. Farmers here tend 
> to bite the brush to get over so others can pass but as Captneb just 
> said(I am a slow typer) they have their golf clubs in the back and don't 
> care about their food or Milk... Ed
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I must say that unfortunately not everyone in PA seems to care about the 
>> Amish buggies.   I was up there a few years ago in the Lancaster area. 
>> We were on a small, locally owned tour bus taking an "Amish Country" 
>> tour.  The road was narrow, curvy and rough.  In front of us was a 10 
>> wheel roll back type truck loaded with roof trusses hanging over both 
>> sides of the bed.  The truck had a loud Detroit diesel and was bellowing 
>> it's way up the road taking nearly the whole roadway.  We were close 
>> behind it when I saw a buggy with 2 teenage Amish children driving it 
>> coming the other way down the road. The truck didn't seem to pay the 
>> buggy any mind.  He didn't slow down or pull over.  There was no road 
>> shoulder to speak of.  Just a grade out ditch and a field beyond.   The 
>> horse started to spook.  She started throwing her head back and forth 
>> fighting the reins.  My heart just about stopped because I knew those 
>> kids no longer had control of the horse.  The truck just kept going.  The 
>> driver on the tour bus wasn't paying any mind either.  All of a sudden 
>> the horse lunged to the right and took out over the ditch and into the 
>> field.  The truck didn't stop to see if the kids were hurt.  The tour bus 
>> that was making it's living out of showing Amish people to folks like me 
>> didn't stop or even seem to notice what had happened.  I was horrified. 
>> That poor horse could just as easily have gone the other way, in front of 
>> the truck, and I wouldn't have to tell you this story because you would 
>> have seen it on CNN.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Stewart" <edstewart1 at verizon.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 6:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] tractor wreck
>>
>>
>>> Capyneb, I have to agree with you.. I grew up on a farm and worked on a 
>>> big dairy farm here in PA. I drove equipment all over the place between 
>>> farms and fields. In the 80's and 90's I ran a truck leased to a big 
>>> highway construction company I spent several years working on Interstate 
>>> 80 across PA. Every accident I ever saw  while there was the fault of 
>>> people driving way to fast usually well beyond the posted speed limit 
>>> being unable to stop. Now a cop sits in construction zones and the fine 
>>> is quadrupled in you get caught.  Just last evening a Amish family in a 
>>> buggy was hit in the rear on a secondary road near here, it had a slow 
>>> vehicle placard and two large flashing red lights on the backend.. The 
>>> whole family was life flighted. I would not want to be in the shoes Of 
>>> the driver who rear ended them. In PA you must have your vehicle under 
>>> your control at all times and be able to stop before hitting anything. 
>>> If you do hit someone you are 100% liable for the accident, no if ands 
>>> or buts. The area here is very hilly and you must use caution when going 
>>> over a knob because there can be anything just out of your sight. I 
>>> myself have not had a problem with this in my 45 years of driving. If 
>>> people are in that big of hurry, they should have left yesterday.
>>>
>>> captneb wrote:
>>>> Most of the complaining about slow farm traffic around here comes from 
>>>> urban
>>>> half wits going no where in a big hurry.  I give as much latitude as
>>>> possible to the folks making food and earning a living.  Rarely is 
>>>> anything
>>>> I'm doing or anywhere I'm going more important than what they're doing,
>>>> especially at this time of the year.  The law of right of way should be 
>>>> "At
>>>> harvest the farmer rules the road."  And that's the way I operate. 
>>>> It's not
>>>> that tough and they need all the help we can give them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <DAVIESW739 at aol.com>
>>>> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:33 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] tractor wreck
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I drive my tractors on the back roads around here a lot of the time. I
>>>>> always try to be nice to the cars but I also keep about half of the
>>>>>
>>>> tractor on  the
>>>>
>>>>> road so as to make them slow up and pass when safe. I know some people
>>>>>
>>>> think
>>>>
>>>>> its road hogging but think of it as my life that is an danger of some
>>>>>
>>>> Idiot
>>>>
>>>>> who  thinks he owns the road. I try not to drive on the main roads but
>>>>>
>>>> there
>>>>
>>>>> are two  here that I have to drive on at times. I do look for pull out 
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>> use
>>>>
>>>>> them to  let the traffic pass safely but Oregon doesn't like to build 
>>>>> much
>>>>>
>>>> road
>>>>
>>>>> beyond  the pavement.
>>>>> Walt Davies
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok I took the bull by the horns for Robert Gee when he was in the 
>>>>> hospital
>>>>> so lets get someone else to take this one. If I get the name of the 
>>>>> man
>>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>>> hospital I will send him a Teddy bear.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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