Discussion on the Causes and Countermeasures of Accidents Caused by Small Walking Tractors

"If you want to buy a rich hand," this is a mantra that farmers often say. Indeed, walking tractors in rural areas are popular with farmers because of their wide range of practical applications, simple operation, and high quality and low price. However, because of the lack of turn signals, rearview mirrors, poor braking, poor cultural quality of farmers and lagging management methods, etc., traffic accidents occur frequently, resulting in human tragedies. According to statistics, walking tractors accounted for more than 30% of accidents in rural traffic accidents.

According to the author's observation, the reasons for the multiple accidents of walking tractors are nothing more than the following reasons:

First, the phenomenon of no license without a license is serious. Since most vehicles of this type are bought by farmers and are mainly engaged in field operations, it is considered that listing and licensing are time-consuming, laborious, costly, and even superfluous, and do not care at all. Indeed, such vehicles are just like cattle raised by farmers and they are engaged in field farming. After they buy their homes, they often find a “senseful person” to refer to the country’s rivers and mountains. As a result, he drove "walking" on the country's trails. Due to manpower, material resources, and other reasons, the management of agricultural machinery is beyond the reach of the whip. There is not enough energy in the mind, so there are few such vehicles listed and certified.

Second, poor vehicle safety performance. As most of these vehicles are patched together, and some of them are blindly launched for profit, there is no guarantee of quality and safety performance. In particular, self-made bodies are mostly made of “scattered hands” with poor welding technology and no business license. They produce twins, and vehicle brakes are often automatically destroyed if they are not malfunctioning. Most of these vehicles have no steering, no brakes, and no light "three-nothing" vehicles. They drive such vehicles as seat pins and blinds and ride blind horses. After ordinary farmers buy their vehicles home, they only use the equipment without maintenance and repair. After some mechanical parts are damaged, the ropes are bundled and tied, and it is difficult to ensure safe production.

Third, fatigue drunk driving phenomenon more. In rural areas, due to the high labor intensity of farmers, they sometimes go to bed at five in the middle of the night and are busy planting and harvesting in the fields. Using alcohol to eliminate fatigue and a piece of cake, some excessive drinking, drunk driving phenomenon is often not clear. Wang Yong, a tractor driver, helped his relatives to cultivate his farm. Even though he couldn't win the wine at night, he had been drinking half a catty of liquor after the owner had repeatedly urged him. Wang, under the influence of liquor power, smashed his eyes and drove home with lights like "fluorescent" cars. Seeing the sky getting late, he turned his back to catching an arrow. There are unexpected circumstances, people have time and time again, Wang drunk driving, speeding, into the bridge, the car crashed on the spot, tragedy occurred.

Fourth, the phenomenon of illegal operation is outstanding. Due to the simple and flexible operation of this type of vehicle, traffic police and agricultural safety supervision departments are neglected to manage, some farmers run for Dora, and they come up with the trick of “killing chickens and picking eggs”, free to replace pulleys and increase tires, and weld ultra-high and ultra-high speeds. The wide and long “three super” bodies are running on country roads or on highways. They are free to randomize and stop. They suddenly abruptly turn and turn around. They are overloaded and overloaded. People and goods are mixed and loaded, and all kinds of violating traffic laws are everywhere. Yes, it is really worrying that the traffic accidents that are induced by this are continuous one after another.

5. For various reasons and the current management system, the agricultural machinery safety management departments are often unable to catch up. The township agricultural machinery stations are in name only and exist in name only. In rural areas, there are still common phenomena of old age and young people. Some people do not use “three-day plowing” for this purpose. Therefore, everyone operates and everyone attends. There are also parents who let minors drive.

In view of the above, the author believes that precautions should be taken mainly from the following points:

First, the construction of agricultural machinery management departments at the county, township, and village levels should be strengthened so that they can play their due role. From the actual service of “three rural issues”, we will go from village to household to teach technology, strengthen the training of vehicle driving technology, and promote maintenance and other knowledge propaganda, and impose greater penalties on illegal drivers. Secondly, the agricultural machinery safety supervision department should use the “five-going” activities and the “safety villages for agricultural machinery” channel and work in concert with the traffic police department to increase publicity, education, and management so as to truly improve the farmers’ awareness of traffic safety and awareness of the legal system. The third is to start from the source, vehicle manufacturers must be strict agricultural production procedures, to create a sophisticated, durable, safe and secure agricultural machinery. The machinery management department either ordered the production of unsafeguarded manufacturers to either stop production or rectify it. Let the whole society work together to create a safe and orderly traffic environment and a good social environment, and strive to prevent accidents that reduce the occurrence of such vehicles. It is indeed the purpose of the Fuyu Road.

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