A farm group said today that more attention needs to be focused on all-terrain vehicles following an ATV collision with a combine.The head-on collision occurred Sept. 27 on a grid road east of Weirdale, Sask.The ATV driver, a 70-year-old man from Candle Lake, Sask., died at the accident scene. He was not wearing a helmet. The 48-year-old man operating the combine was not injured.RCMP continues to investigate the matter.”This is a sad reminder that there is a great need for us to educate all riders on appropriate ATV usage on the rural landscape,” said Keystone Agricultural Producers president Ian Wishart.”Farmers have a love-hate relationship with ATVs. They are useful around the farm to check fields or fences, move augers or run for tools. In someone else’s hands, they can tear up fields, destroy crops and give people an all access pass to our private property.”In a news release following the accident, Wishart said it’s time to focus more on ATVs because they are being aggressively marketed as toys to a sector of the population that is not always aware of the damage they can do.Wishart said ATVs are not the problem, citing lack of respect for the rights of landowners as the real issue.
ATV and combine collide head on in Sask.
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