The beet farms of Tuscola County, Michigan, have been having a tricky autumn, after two vans loaded with the greens crashed days aside. The newest accident occurred on November 2, and was caught on video.

Shot from what seems to have been a chicken feeder digital camera, the video exhibits a semi with two trailers hooked up driving alongside freeway M-81. The truck, which had the proper of means, is minimize off by a white SUV that pulls out in entrance of it.

The semi driver tries to take evasive motion, steering to the proper and slamming on the brakes in an try and keep away from the SUV. Nonetheless, the transfer is simply too aggressive for the truck, which rolls onto its aspect, spilling two trailer-loads of sugar beets onto the street.

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The greens have been strewn round throughout the street, and made it into the car parking zone of a Prahin & Associates, a close-by tax-prep enterprise, experiences Tuscola As we speak. Luckily, though the truck did nonetheless hit the SUV, the affect was considerably milder than it may have been.

Witnesses on the scene report that the driving force of the black SUV that was innocently headed in the wrong way on the time was complaining of neck ache after one of many trailers impacted their car. The situation of the opposite folks concerned within the crash will not be clear.

Naturally, site visitors was rerouted within the wake of the accident, and police say they’re investigating. Weirdly, it was the second accident involving a semi carrying sugar beets on freeway M-81 the native police have had to answer in lower than seven days.

The primary happened on October 27, a few mile and a half (2.4 km) away from the November 2 accident. That accident additionally noticed sugar beets spilling onto the street, and led to minor accidents for the truck’s driver, as nicely the driving force of a pickup truck that was concerned within the incident.

The ethical of the tales is at all times look each methods earlier than you flip onto a freeway, particularly when you reside near a beet farm.