Avoid more accidents: Light up your farm equipment at night

CHESTERVILLE — After her son drove into the back of grain wagon, Pam Kirkwood, of Chesterville, called Farmers Forum to remind farmers to put reflectors and lights on farm equipment at night. 

She doesn’t want to start a fight with farmers, she said. She just wants everyone to be safe. 

On Sunday, Nov. 12  at about 7:30 p.m. she said her son “only saw darkness ahead of him” until he hit the back of the gravity wagon pulled by a tractor. No one was injured, she said.

The wagon had no lights, only a worn out orange safety triangle with little to no reflectivity, she said. 

“I know this is farm country and farmers are busy” but there has been more than one accident, she said. “This is a great time of year to tell everyone to be careful.  “We can see our snowplows and our school buses. We want to see our farmers.”

In Ontario, by law an implement or farm wagon towed by a tractor must display a red light at the rear of the rear-most vehicle.