From Fall 1999 - Volume 2, Number 3

In one second a car traveling at 60 miles per hour goes 88 feet. In the same second a tractor going 12 miles per hour in the same direction on the same rural road goes seven feet. If the driver of the car rounds a bend or tops a hill and first sees the tractor from the length of a football field away, the driver has only four seconds to recognize the slow moving vehicle, decide how to react properly, and get the two ton car slowed to the speed of the tractor. Unfortunately, many times each year something in this process goes terribly wrong, and people are disabled or killed in car/machinery collisions on roads.