(MNN)-The Minnesota Department of Transportation is reminding drivers to share the roads with tractors and farm vehicles during spring planting season. MnDOT officials say motorists should slow down and prepare to encounter slow-moving farm vehicles, especially on rural, two-lane roads. State data show that there were 392 crashes involving farm equipment in Minnesota from 2023 to 2025, resulting in 12 deaths and 167 injuries. Farm operators should use lights as required to make equipment more visible and have slow-moving vehicle emblems on equipment traveling less than 30 miles an hour.
MnDOT Asking Drivers and Farm Equipment Operators to Share Roads during Spring Planting
(MNN)-The Minnesota Department of Transportation is reminding drivers to share the roads with tractors and farm vehicles during spring planting season. MnDOT officials say motorists should slow down and prepare to encounter slow-moving farm vehicles...
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