Re: Today's Feature First Driving Offense

Posted by Zachary Hoyt on February 19, 2013 at 15:38:40 from (50.122.169.86):

In Reply to: Today's Feature First Driving Offense posted by John B. on February 19, 2013 at 14:39:02:

Never been pulled over but at the age of about 20 on a winter day I was driving a Massey 35 pulling a wagon running gear to go and pick up the wood from some logs I had taken to the sawmill back before we had ours. It was about 20 degrees with 6" of snow on the ground and I had my heavy coat on with my hood up. I had to go about a mile through the woods and then about half a mile down a county road. When I left I almost didn't take my SMV triangle, it was lying flat on a table in the barn and the snow had drifted in and dusted over it so it took me a while to find it. Going down the county road I would look around behind me for traffic every minute or so and then put my hood back up. When I was most of the way to the mill I saw that a town plow that had just passed me going the other way had stopped and the driver was waving his arms, maybe 200 yards behind me. I pulled over into the snowbank and walked back to see what was going on and he said "didn't you see that car" and I said "what car" and he told me that a car had pulled up behind me and then gone to pass and had slipped off the road and down over about a 20 foot embankment into a swamp. We climbed down to the car which was still upright and opened the door, the car driver seemed groggy and disoriented and would not leave the car without taking along a bag of some sort of fast food that was on the seat beside him. The plow driver and I pushed and pulled him up to the top of the bank, which was a struggle since he was not balancing himself well and he was rather portly. About the time we got him up the fire department, an ambulance and a state trooper arrived and after he talked to the plow driver the trooper questioned me. He asked if the SMV sign had been on the tractor at the time of the accident and I said yes, and I guess the plow driver could have confirmed that if he had not believed me. He took down my particulars and told me I could go, and I got back on the tractor and headed for the mill. By the time I got the lumber loaded and paid for and got home I was pretty chilly, but I was very glad that I had not given up on finding the SMV sign before I left.
Zach

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