Trucker ticketed for texting and driving after rear-ending tractor in rural Iowa

This week, a semi truck driver was ticketed following a collision with a tractor in Linn County, Iowa.

The crash occurred shortly after 7 p.m. on April 11 at Troy Mills and Rundell Roads.

In keeping with the Linn County Sheriff’s Workplace (LCSO), Charles Bach, 44, was driving a tractor pulling an implement south on Troy Mills Highway when the tractor was struck from behind by a semi truck pushed by Walter Grabau, 56.

The rear-end crash prompted the tractor to roll, coming to a cease the wrong way up within the roadway.

LCSO says that the truck crossed the northbound lane of the street and got here to a cease in a ditch.

Bach was hospitalized with non life-threatening accidents.

Grabau wasn’t harm.

LCSO says that Grabau was issued citations for Use of an Digital Communications System Whereas Driving and Following Too Shut.

April is Nationwide Distracted Driving Consciousness Month.