0-turn accident

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Our lawn crew at work had a mower accident. Guy was going full speed on our unlevel ground. SCAG mower bucked operator off thankfully to the rear of the deck. Mower kept going. It slammed into a new Jeep causing $$$$. Those 0-turns weigh 1500lbs and do nearly 20mph.

Safety switches were disabled.

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StarTech

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And you wonder why I am so pushy about having all the safeties working on my customers mowers.

I had a customer that brought a mower from a fly by night repair shop about 10 miles from that had installed the wrong safety switches. The customer was his lawn when he got knock off by a tree limb. The mower continued cutting grass until it ran into his wife's new car. Just lucky it didn't run over somebody while the deck was operating.
 

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Those Scags have seat belts too.
I trim all low hanging branches on my property once a year.
 

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Those Scags have seat belts too.
I trim all low hanging branches on my property once a year.
I believe everything with a roll bar has a seat belt. If it doesn't have a roll bar, it won't have a set belt, either.
 
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