RCMP encourages drivers to play it safe going into the fall
Battlefords RCMP are reminding drivers to take their time on the roads, especially going into the harvest season.
They are asking drivers to use caution when sharing the road with heavy farm equipment in particular.
“As we see farm equipment and farmers moving around during this harvest, [transporting] their combines or swathers up and down the grid roads and highways, people aren’t slowing down and giving them enough time to move off to the side of the road,” Cpl. James Fenrich said.
He said oftentimes drivers will pass slow-moving farm machinery “darting in and out of traffic, trying to get around combines,” which is very unsafe.