Tractor pushes car sideways down Main Street into the city
A tractor from My-T Acres pushed a car with two people in it sideways eastbound down Main Street this evening.
The tractor struck at least two other vehicles and caused at least one minor injury.
Incredibly, neither of the two people in the car pushed by the tractor were injured.
"If it (the car) had flipped over, we would both be dead," said driver Gene Laney. "There is no way we could get out."
The tractor only stopped after a passerby jumped up on the driver-side running board, according to Laney and a police officer, and banged on the glass and yelled at the driver, who eventually heeded the message and turned the tractor off.
The tractor finally stopped in the vicinity of 355 W. Main St.
The hero who helped get the tractor stopped was apparently no longer on scene five or 10 minutes later and police on scene did not know who he was.
Witnesses describe the unidentified tractor driver as in a daze. It is not known why he drove the vehicle in this manner from Lewiston Road onto Main Street.
County Emergency Coordinator Tim Yaeger happened to be in the area at the time the call went out and tried to get the tractor driver to stop, even pulling in front of the tractor with lights and sirens to draw the driver's attention.
No further information is available at this time.