Police were called to a road traffic incident involving an agricultural tractor and trailer on the outskirts of Chale yesterday evening (Tuesday).
The incident occurred at Becksfield Cross – the junction for Chale, Kingston and Billingham – at around 19:00.
It’s understood the trailer unit overturned whilst collecting grain from the nearby fields.
Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident and the drawbar disconnected from the tractor as it is designed to do.
Recovery was arranged and the road has now fully re-opened.
Too many of these tractor drivers who carry crops to the bio-digester miles away drive like lunatics.
When you consider the cost of diesel for ploughing and planting crops purely for the digester, then the cutting of them, then the miles sometimes from West Wight to transport them back to Arreton, and the pay of each tractor driver, it does not ‘add up’ to be green.
Add the fact that food stuff is then not grown and has to be bought in from abroad.
I was told all tick boxes for the Gov, in ‘showing’ we are green, when, like this appears, the reality of making a little gas, yet using gallons of diesel to do so, is anything but
Agreed, but this is producing electric to charge those wonderful electric cars !!!!!! that so many think are green – not. Just tick the boxes. They too travel thousands of miles to be delivered,their components and materials also travel thousands all on diesel ships/lorries etc. My old diesel car will produce far less pollution in next 15/20yrs than a new electric car does during manufacture – on end of life too the electric battery will also Be a pollutioni issue. Green is not to have any car at all.
Ref: Transport and Environment Briefing
“The life cycle analysis shows that even when powered by the most GHG intensive electricity in Europe, the carbon footprint of EVs is lower”
Precisely where they’re going with this in a nutshell.
Not another tractor that just happens to fall over let me guess going to fast wasn’t the cause.
I was behind one yesterday which was pulling away from me (I was doing 40 along Forest Road, going into Newport) They drive like idiots and I said how long before the first one turns over….
Didn’t have to wait long.
I wonder if these tractor drivers are paid by the amount of trips they do, hence the arrogant bullying driving as they speed through narrow Island lanes.
You can see the skid marks in the roads where they travel, and likely similar in many drivers undies when they meet a huge machine weighing tons heading toward them on the narrow Island roads.
Needs the Islands MP to investigate the bio farce.
Agree! Drive like hooligans. I think you could be right about being paid by the trip. Drive far too fast on the country lanes then go up to the downs and can only go up at 5 mph. Will not pull in to let traffic pass. Often travel in convoy too, 3 in a row the other day. As for the MP – he does very little so I can’t see him doing anything about this.
Wrong
They don’t get paid for the load, they just don’t work standard 9 – 5 office jobs where the main objective is to kill as much time as possible. They have a job to do which has to be done in often very limited time frames due to natural restrictions like the weather.
More bad driving on the IW
That there is a ‘racing bumpkin’, welcome to the iow tractor Grand prixks;)₩
These tractor drivers are idiots, more will be along soon…
speed and bad driving
Cars and motorcycles your not wrong
When will our ‘Road safety officers’ take these tractors drivers to the side and “have a word” Never seen a conviction for due care and attention published as a result of these collisions!
C’mon police prosecute.
When those trailers start bouncing, at speed, they will turn over and there isn’t much the jockey can do about it, especially as they appear to have increased the height of many of the trailers. I think that’s the third turnover on the Island that I am aware of, so far.
Do the drivers have HGV licences ? I doubt it, perhaps they should have
Not only that, but they never seem to put any netting or a tarpaulin over the top of the trailer, resulting in half their load being spread all over the road. I had to follow one most of the way from Yarmouth to Newport recently on my motorbike and when I got home I looked like a bloody scarecrow I had so much hay all over me!
Hang back then retard
Because of the stream of hay going back hundreds of yards it wouldn’t have helped. Nice use of invective by the way. Shows your intelligence.
It wouldn’t have been hay in the back of a trailer as hay would be baled on the field
I saw this vehicle travelling to the crash site, thought the guy stole the tractor as is was going very fast. It’s his fault and should be banned for life
That is grass cuttings not grain!
Grain is golden colour not green!
In Thorley the daily tractor Grand Prix is a serious accident waiting to happen I’m guessing trailer and tractor must weigh over 30 tons, at over 40mph down single track roads with blind corners even driving tractor .. the roads where bad before this happ be and these are deemed cycle routes Madness..
This practice can bunk means be green, it’s