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Truck rear-ends slow moving back-hoe on Highway 30
Benton County authorities say that a lack of attention was behind a two vehicle crash on Highway 30 just west of the Linn-Benton county line.
A 22-year-old Mount Vernon man was headed east on Highway 30 when he rear-ended a slow moving back-hoe tractor with his truck at around 7:22 p.m. Friday.
Officials would not release the name of the Mount Vernon man, but said he was sent by ambulance to a Cedar Rapids hospital with minor injuries.
“Someone just wasn't paying attention,” said Benton County Sheriff's deputy John Lindaman. “Slow tractors have just as much a right to the road.”
The driver of the tractor, Dean Haerther, 43, of Atkins, was not injured.
The accident is still under investigation.
Fire crews investigate the scene of an accident on Highway 30 less than a mile west of the Linn-Benton county line. The driver of the truck was sent to a hospital in Cedar Rapids for minor injuries after he rear-ended a slow moving tractor back hoe. (Spencer Willems/The Gazette)
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