A driver was left trapped and injured after a crash between a car and a tractor on a busy road near Nantwich.
The incident happened on the A530 Whitchurch Road at Baddington at 2.30pm yesterday (May 28).
The road was closed in both directions as police and fire crews battled to free the driver from the wreckage.
Fire crews from Nantwich and Crewe were called to the scene, and found the car had overturned after the collision.
Firefighters managed to cut the casualty and passed them into the care of paramedics.
The road was closed in both directions by police.
In this case, the driver was travelling at approx 45/50 mph when the tractor lurched forward from a driveway into the path of the car which had no chance of avoiding it. There is no ‘dopey driver’ element in this case! I was travelling immediately behind the vehicle that was involved in this accident and can catagiorically state that the car driver was not at fault.
Rule 169 of the Highway Code states that tractors should not hold up a ‘long queue of traffic’, and that farmers should frequently check their mirror.
Sitting in a queue of traffic behind a tractor for miles make drivers impatient and they make dangerous decisions which is only human.
The tractor driver should be aware of what is behind him not the nice clear road ahead because nothing can get passed.
I understand that farmers and contractors have land that are some miles from the farm and time is crucial but this also applies to people doing 25 mph in queue behind.
the times dopey drivers think they can overtake tractors amazes me, the worse thing you can do given just how much time are you really saving? just chill put on some relaxing music, a farmers life is hard enough without out all the selfish attitudes of drivers out there on the road acting like morons