A wreck on Highway 19 involving a tractor and a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado seriously injured one man who was knocked from a tractor. The March 8 wreck slowed traffic until he was transported to the hospital.
John King, a Pike County resident, has been at Spalding Regional Medical Center since the Monday afternoon accident.
"He's fine," said his sister Cheryl. "He just has a broken leg and a broken wrist."
Pike County Emergency Services workers transport an injured man from the scene of a wreck on Highway 19 around 12:45 p.m. March 8. [Photo: Jennifer Taylor]
Was the tractor driver not using common sense while travelling at an unsafe low rate of speed, impeding traffic on a 5 lane State highway?
Might want to arm yourself with a bit of knowledge.
O.C.G.A. § 40-8-35
What if the tractor had been a car making a turn? He would have been moving slowly as well would it have been the fault of the guy turning?
I think some of you people need to find something to do.
This is similar to the false perception that "Pedestrians have the right of way" This statement in general is not so, as Pedestrians only have the right of way against motor vehicles in a properly marked crosswalk. Walk out in moving traffic because you assume you have a legal right to, and you are almost guaranteed your family will enjoy a closed casket funeral, at your own fault.
Also, if someone pulls right out in front of you, and you hit them in the rear, you are not at fault, as they failed to yield right of way to oncoming traffic.
Consult an attorney if you don't believe me. Things are not always as you think they are.
Secondly, there is nowhere on highway 19 where a hill would be blocking your view at a reasonable rate of speed and paying attention that you wouldn't be able to see a farm tractor.
Sorry not buying it.
And I will speak, comment or anything else whenever and wherever I like. If you don't like it, life is tough.
I really just love the cute spelling.
I’ve been married 10 years to a farmer’s daughter
I got 2 boys in the county 4-H
I’m a lifetime sponsor of the F.F.A.
Hay! That’s what I make
I make a lotta hay for a little pay
But I’m proud to say
I’m a God fearin’ hard workin’ combine driver
Hoggin’ up the road on my a p-p-p-plower
Chug a lug a lugin’ 5 miles an hour
On my International Harvester
Well I know you got your own deadlines
But cussin’ me ain’t savin’ no time hoss
This big-wheeled wide load ain’t goin’ any faster
So just smile and wave and tip your hat
To the man up on the tractor
LOL LOve that song! Go Farmers!!!
The gentlemen driving the tractor or at least someone who knows the tractor has said all safety devices were in place and properly working.
Where's your argument now? Or you just another one of those anonymous posters, who doesn't count, that once proven wrong resorts to wimpy attacks. I see that you are.
Tractors always have the right-of-way when traveling on a road. If you look long enough in your precious OCGA, you can find it.
I am a Mark Twain fan...he said...."It is a person of poor imagination who can only think of one way to spell a word."
I enjoy David's blogs.
The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm,
And we never knowed what it was called.
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed,
I never gave it much thought ......
One day I was out there talking to my brother,
Reached down for a weed to chew on,
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry,
And then everything was gone!
Didn't know what happened,
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap.
I come to and my brother was there,
And he said, What's wrong with your eyes?
I said, I don't know, I was chewing on a weed.
He said, Let me give it a try.
We spent the rest of that day and most of that night,
Trying to find my brother, Bill.
Caught up with him, 'bout six o'clock the next morning,
Naked, swinging on the wind mill!
He said he flew up there.
I had to fly up there and bring him down,
He was about half crazy .....
The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds,
And put 'em in the sun to dry.
Then we mashed 'em up and chopped 'em up,
And put 'em in the corncob pipe.
Smokin' that wildwood flower got to be a habit,
We didn't see no harm.
We thought it was kind of handy,
Take a trip and never leave the farm!
All good things gotta come to an end,
And it's the same with the wildwood weed.
One day this feller from Washington came by,
And he spied it and turned white as a sheet.
Then they dug and they burned,
And they burned and they dug,
And they killed all our cute little weeds.
Then they drove away,
We just smiled and waved ..........
Sittin' there on that sack of seeds!
Y'all come back now, hear?
Pike county is still an agricultural community; regardless of what you think. If you want urban landscape, move. Yielding is the cars responsibility; a farmer should be able to drive his tractor on any public roadway without the fear of getting hit (and he should be able to run the spandex riders off to the side if he needs the space). Also, what kind of sign do you need on the back of a 5 to 7 ton machine so that people can see you? I mean, how big does the sign have to freakin' be hanging on the back of this 12foot wide, 7foot high machine for us to see it? Legal or not, it's a huge machine and the sign and flashing lights aren't going to make it bigger. Don't confuse Law with Common Sense.
Don't get me wrong, I've had accidents, too - and I have a friend who's actually hit a tractor believe it or not (fortunately no one was hurt). I still joke with my friend about it, too - I mean, come on, it's a daggum 7 ton piece of steel with 6' tires on it. Yield.
I took a drive out by the accident site this morning. Someone focused on driving would not miss a big green john deere tractor. However, due to the angle of the hill, it would not take much of a distraction. Waving at the person beside you in the lane, turning to talk to the other person in the car. These are all things we've done and I certainly don't condemn Cody for it.
For the lawyers in the crowd, the tractor did have the proper safety equipment. Yes, I looked at the tractor.
Now the important part. The gentleman on the tractor from what I've been told suffered a broken wrist and a broken leg and is expected to return home today should nothing change.
Keep single file and to the right so someone doesn't run you over. I can't tell you how many times I've topped a hill or rounded a curve and found bike riders strung out three or four wide across the road, cutting dirty looks at anyone who passes.
Sooner or later you know what's going to happen.
Hang in there Cody.
What are you good for? You could hold the "Dry Paint" sign, that would be good. You can hold it in front of your face, and maintain your anonymity.
Another example of the minority (bikes, tractors) trying to exercise authority over, and hinder the majority (motor vehicles)
But then again, consider the source
Well, there's too much traffic, I can't pass, no!
So I tried my best illegal move
A big black and white come and crushed my groove again!
CHORUS:
Go on & write me up for 125
Post my face, wanted dead or alive
Take my license n' all that jive
I can't drive É 55! Oh No! Uh!
So I signed my name on number 24, hey!
Yeah the judge said, "Boy, just one more
I'm gonna throw your --- in the city joint"
Looked me in the eye, said, "You get my point?"
I said "Yeah!, Oh yea!"
When I drive that slow, you know it's hard to steer.
And I can't get my car out of second gear.
What used to take two hours now takes all day.
Huh - It took me 16 hours to get to L.A.!
CHORUS:
Go on & write me up for 125
Post my face, wanted dead or alive
Take my license n' all that jive
I can't drive 55!
19 North & South ain’t for tractors. There are back roads in Pike County. This would be like putting grandma in Malibu at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Crap is going to happen!!!!!!
And to the posting farmers, “Cashew” was not tilling, cultivating, plowing, seeding, harrowing, leveling, any fields. He was just driving from point A to point B. So please get off the soap box about farmers and how they are superior. And another foot note to all, PC in not a true agricultural producing county. We have a “rural setting” and the county’s gross agriculture product in less than the capital income of the blue collar working class.
I am of the opinion; “Drive like you Live", "fast and hard” pass or be passed, “ bob, weave, duck” and look out for the county mounty !!!!! & super troopers.
Curious ! was Peanut under the influence?
Gotta go ……
Oh, thats it! Duh!
Did you see the nice shirt he was wearing?
We often make a judgement concerning someone else, but I was asked by Cody to pray for the gentlemen in the hospital and for his little girl. I'm sorry for the accident, but Cody is what everyone should be...a praying man who believes in prayers being answered.
It would seem that if you are going to drive a piece of machenery at such an abnormally slow rate of speed in the travel lanes of a state highway, that one would take more precautions, and at least attempt to stay clear of the normal flow of traffic, and not be so arrogant as to be satisfied with some kind of perceived "right of way" and such, but unfortunately that didn't happen. You saw for yourself what happpens.
Glad they were ok, and the little girl was ok too. Bad day for all, hopefully a lesson learned for the tractor guy. Maybe next time have someone follow him a little ways back?
anon - 'nuff said.