Sharing the road

As farm equipment takes to the fields–and roads–it is a chance for drivers of both motor vehicles and farm machinery to determine what they can do to make our rural roads safer.
    Rural roadways are a danger for motorists. The number of urban and suburban crashes far outweighs the number of rural collisions (by as much as 2-3 times), rural areas claim 55 percent of the fatalities.
    In Nebraska, we’ve seen four factors involved in many of the crashes:
    •motor vehicles attempting to pass farm machinery making left hand turns;
    •intersection collisions, at both marked and unmarked intersections;

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