No, its not a stupid question.
Sure, the tractor is a *more* modern vehicle than a horse drawn buggy, invented around the same time as the car, but still slow moving and usually fairly well lit, and I saw one that had just been run over many years ago. The tractor driver was just as dead. Or maybe he was more human because he was on a modern vehicle...he was black, not Amish, does that make it different?
It took the left rear wheel off the tractor, flipped it over on top of the driver, killed the driver and demolished the car. So is it any different because it’s a modern vehicle? Both drivers are just as dead...
Both operated by humans.
Both are slow moving vehicles.
Both have the right to be on the road.
Same as I do on my bicycle. Or maybe you think that would be stupid question too, what if it were someone on a bicycle?
The problem I usually have around here is deer on the road after dark and they don’t have lights. That’s why I usually drive about 40mph at night...I counted 23 one night coming home from a gig, just over an hour drive. Fortunately they all stayed on the shoulder. And lived.
The only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.
Exactly......Buggies aren’t the only slow moving vehicles on the roads.....this guy was speeding so obviously had little time to stop for ANY slow vehicle.
As one FReeper pointed out a horse pulling one of these things will sometimes become spooked and bolt out into traffic , buggy and driver in tow and an accident happens, often with tragic results for the horse.
It reminds me of when I was working in NYC in the late ‘70’s and ‘80’s and the ‘’carriage horses’’ that would take tourists around Central Park.
That wasn’t so bad but when the drivers would go up and down Fifth Ave. that’s when there were problems.
I witnessed two accidents involving those things.
Both cases resulted in a tourist and a driver being injured and both horses having to be put down.