(CHATSWORTH, ON) – Grey County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) continue to stress traffic safety and education in their ongoing commitment to making traveling on roadways within Grey County as safe as possible.
Farm vehicles and horse drawn vehicles offer a unique challenge to automobile drivers. Grey County OPP offer some tips which may reduce collisions involving these road users:
– Farming implements and horse drawn vehicles are slow moving vehicles and should be marked with a slow moving vehicle sign to the rear. A slow-moving vehicle sign is used to warn drivers that a vehicle – as the name suggests – is moving slowly. Slow-moving vehicles can only travel up to 40 kilometres an hour – so it’s important to be patient and slow down when approaching these vehicles on the road.
– Farming implements and horse drawn vehicles will be operating as far to the right as possible. Slow down and keep well back when approaching from behind. Be cautions of any upcoming turns into a farm lane or roadway from the vehicle ahead. Any hand signal from the buggy operator or farm implement driver may be difficult to see; if used at all.