Tractor Accident.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2011

Just lost a farmer in a car tractor accident. This was a fatal accident as the car driven by a young women was going at a high rate of speed hit a Farmall 560 pulling a sprayer with such force it rolled the tractor over and back on its wheels killing Mr Beard from Harvard Ill, age 65 years young, no tickets yet the police we were told at our county tractor ride are checking cell phone calls or texting, pass the word watch out for these impatient people out there and say a prayer the family.

rustyfarmall · Jul 19, 2011

(quoted from post at 08:51:48 07/19/11) Just lost a farmer in a car tractor accident. This was a fatal accident as the car driven by a young women was going at a high rate of speed hit a Farmall 560 pulling a sprayer with such force it rolled the tractor over and back on its wheels killing Mr Beard from Harvard Ill, age 65 years young, no tickets yet the police we were told at our county tractor ride are checking cell phone calls or texting, pass the word watch out for these impatient people out there and say a prayer the family.

That sort of thing is happening more often, and it is all around in farming country. All too often the driver of the car is someone who is from the area, drives those roads everyday, and definitely DID know better. I don't care if that young woman was talking or texting or neither one, she DESERVES to do some time behind bars.

Guy R · Jul 19, 2011

so sorry to hear this news

Dave H (MI) · Jul 19, 2011

These people scare me sometimes with their cars. I have someone follow me when I move hay around now. I cannot see behind me easily and drivers are only getting worse as distractions get better.

Jail time sounds good but true prison I could not support unless they were drunk or worse. Big fines and heavy community service would be a good deterrent if enforced. People like this need to pay for their own punishment not the taxpayer.

W.Brehm · Jul 19, 2011

If she doesn't do any time I'll guarantee the family of the victim will sue the women driving the car.

d282 · Jul 19, 2011

Keeping the family in my prayers. I used to never have somebody follow behind me, but anymore with the crazy and crazier drivers I always find someone to follow behind. I do not understand what is so important to get to that it is worth risking your life and others. Last time I checked phones have voicemail, and people can leave a message.
Everybody be safe, and always drive with the other driver in mind!

rhtx55 · Jul 19, 2011

So sorry to hear the accident was fatal. A loss of her license for a period of time, and certainly a defensive driving course to re-instate after a hefty probationary period. Accidents do happen, but this sounds more like too high of a speed for the road conditions.
Back when god was a kid & I took driver's ed, farm machinery safety was actually taught as part of the course, maybe they should go back to teaching it again, and not just in the rural areas.

Roger46 · Jul 19, 2011

I cannot figure out the mentality of people in there encounters with farm machinery. It seems they think they can pass at will regardless if it is a yellow line or not because they are going slow or something. Last week I was following behind a tractor and an empty large bale trailer. There was a car in front of me, so there were two of us waiting for a chance to pass as there was a double yellow line on a curve. Suddenly, a vehicle comes up behind us and just tries to pass all of us on a curve with the double yellow line. Just as he pulls out, two cars appear coming from the other direction. If we hadn't hit the brakes to make room for him to pull back in there would have been a head on collision with the oncoming car. Then after the two cars pass (still double yellow line) he passes the tractor and trailer. Fortunately, there were no more vehicles coming, so he made it around the tractor/trailer. The other car and I passed when it was clear to pass and then we came up behind this guy driving 40mph in a 55mph road. I just don't understand people's thinking or lack of thinking. I guess some people shouldn't be allowed to drive, bottom line. Roger

GeneMO · Jul 19, 2011

9 chances out of 10, she doesn't have a pot to pi$$ in, so a civil suit would be an exercise in futility.

Gene

sflem849 · Jul 19, 2011

Beard's on Thayer Rd? When I sprayed for DeLong's we would spray for them all the time. Too bad, you should have seen the morons trying to pass my sparyer. 76 and 14 were the worst, but it was getting worse everywhere.

sflem849 · Jul 19, 2011

HARVARD, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities in northern Illinois say a 66-year-old Harvard man was killed when the tractor he was driving was hit by a car trying to pass him.

McHenry County sheriff's police say Mancel Beard was driving on Illinois Route 23 when the car hit his tractor Tuesday. Beard was thrown about 10 feet by the accident and died later at a hospital.

Police say a 54-year-old woman was trying to pass Beard when her Ford Taurus hit the tractor. She wasn't hurt.

The crash remains under investigation.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2011

What a shame, so sorry for family. Once I was pulling a full grinder/mixer of corn with my old Oliver 1800 on a busy two lane headed back to the farm from where I bought and ground the corn. Lady in a mini van waves me to the side of the road, I figure I am leaking feed or wheel bearings on fire or some such disaster. She had stopped me for directions! Could have killed us all that day! I was miffed to say the least. Common sense is lacking these days.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2011

had a bad one yesterday in NY where car passed a sprayer and force a van into the sprayer killing five people and several injured people. Got that was passing the sprayer was DWI. Being charged in te 5 deaths of Amish farmers.

rhtx55 · Jul 20, 2011

Man I really hate to hear of these fatalities.
My condolensces to the families.
I grew up in southern Indiana, and was always taught even before I had my license, to ALWAYS give farmers the right of way, ESPECIALLY during harvest or planting season. It doesn't take five minutes out of your life, and that's a small price to pay in my book.
As big as some equipment is now, they are jostling & juggling just to get down the roads to begin with, dodging signs, mail boxes, telephone poles etc., add an impatient driver peddling a roller skate and they can sneak up behind a Tractor without even being seen. Since they come up so fast, the farmer doesn't even know they are there, and then if something does happen, he has no time to act or react when they do pull out to pass.
It has been my experience most farmers will always find a spot to pull over and let the traffic pass as soon as possible, or at least when they can find a safe spot to get over without ending upside down in the ditch.
At least, that's the way I was taught to move equipment safely on any public road.

Ken Ind. · Jul 21, 2011

I am so sorry about Mr. Beard. That is why the public neds to SLOW down. His family will be in my prayers.

mkirsch · Jul 21, 2011

(quoted from post at 11:48:40 07/19/11)
If she doesn't do any time I'll guarantee the family of the victim will sue the women driving the car.

More likely, the woman driving the car will sue the family of the victim, because the lawyers will claim he was a road hazard and shouldn't have been there...

Kat20 · Jul 22, 2011

That "young woman" is over 50 years old and is apparently telling whoever will listen that she did nothing wrong and is taking no responsibility for killing an innocent man.

sflem849 · Jul 22, 2011

http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2011/07/13/r_vaybikvbqnuif0bbfvsxw/index.xml?__xsl=/print.xsl

Here are a couple articles on the accident near Harvard, IL. Looks like Butch was headed north on Rt 23 waiting to turn left onto Bunker Hill and some impatient woman tried to pass and t-boned him.

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