Happens all the time here. Had my share of close calls but never an actual incident. A buddy of mine had a nice new JD baler totaled and several thousand dollars damage to his tractor when a teen driving a Honda was not paying attention and rear ended him doing about 50mph.
The year before that another local was killed when he got hit in a 45mph road. Rolled the Farmall H over on top of him.
Here in CT it's actually state law that if you are traveling on a public roadway behind a vehicle displaying a SMV triangle... The vehicles are to remain in line behind it until the operator of the SMV signals to the other motorist that it is safe to over take. Otherwise should a MVA occur and the motorist was not signaled that it was safe to over take the motorist is at fault. Not that it matters when folks are hurt or killed.
Wish they would do a 5 or 10 minute lil lecture to new drivers about this stuff, think they are just not teaching it.
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