[AT] tractor wreck

[Edchainsaw at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/24/2006 12:29:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
[AT] tractor wreck

we have  aproxamatly 300 coal trucks a day run past our farm, it is a 2 lane 
road with limited passing  opertunites.

beeing the victom (YES VICTOM)  of   3 smacks and  watching  my dad  get hit  
3times  had made me   kinda  an expert I would think.    I  have been hit  3 
times while turning left    the guy behind  not paying any attention to his  
speed...   or my hand signals.. or  tractor turn signals.    In all of my cases 
  I  slowed  -- crowed the center line  and  signaled  like you are  told  to 
do..  once  with the tractor signals  and 2 times  by hand.
The drivers  all  did  not  slow down to my speed before making the pass..   
inother words they were just plane out of  control.  One even tried to tell 
the police I had signalled him to pass  LOL      One stupid  "witness"   was no 
where near the  accident when it happend and told the police he never saw me  
signal  but   did know that "1 mile back that car passed me"  (it was a no 
passing zone) 

One time  Dad was following me   with the pickup when I was turning and  had 
his signals on...  truck pulled out to pass  him.   he  had enough  GUTS  to 
pull into his  path and  get hit in the rear---   Trucker  backed up.. got in  
the  right  lane   drove off;  before any police could arrive-- and  they 
wouldnt  do anything even with the drivers name and his company... I thought  
leaving the scene was  a  crime...  anyway.


this  last one takes the cake--    dad's got ALL the lights  going    truck 
behind him  3/4 mile
he turns on the turn light  and begins to make  his turn ---  truck   hits 
him  in the  big wheel.
skid marks  from  the  truck are 75ft long  (but yet he claims he was not 
speeding )  the  wheel  is wedged  up under the tractor,  his radator is   behind 
 his front wheel..   Police said  he was   totally to fault... ( he claims  
tractors dont have turn signals.. lol,  dad didnt have any lights on (the truck 
infront of him  told him he was wrong at his work the next daylol)..

anyway     his  insurance said  NO was  Dad's fault since   their driver  
TRIED to  Avoid and dad  hit him...   What a  JOKE..    shame on you PEKIN.