If you’re on the highway this time of year, chances are you’ll be sharing it with some massive pieces of equipment. Farmers are getting ready to start the season, and as they do they’ll be moving their machinery, often on the roads.
“We’re noticing lots of farm equipment being moved, not only on our major Saskatchewan highways… but on our secondary and certainly on our rural roads as well,” said Lyle Karasiuk, director of public affairs with Parkland Ambulance. “There’s going to be a lot of farm traffic.”
Drivers may be tempted to speed around farm equipment to move their commute along faster, but the average commuter car is definitely taking the worst of a crash with a piece of farm machinery.
“This stuff is big, it’s sometimes and quite often slow moving, it can be quite long in terms of moving multiple pieces of equipment, and it can be quite dangerous,” Karasiuk said. “If you’re passing beside a cultivator, which is meant to turn the soil, there are some pretty stiff pieces of metal that, should you come into contact with them, you’re going to be injured.”
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