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rainc cases dominated Judge John Alexander’s docket in general district court on August 16.
Witnesses and exhibits were presented in the case of the slow tractor. Jens Ulrich Tholand of Sperryville was charged with making an improper turn in connection with a June 23 accident on Route 231 near Piedmont Farms. Tholand was pulling his tractor onto the driveway at his farm when he was struck by a Datsun truck.
The truck driver testified that he had pulled out to pass the tractor which he said was traveling about 20 miles per hour; just as he pulled adjacent to the tractor, it veered into the passing lane.
Tholand testified that he didn’t use his turn signal because he saw no traffic behind him. He said he checked the rear view mirror several times before starting the turn, adding that he drives defensively because “it gets pretty scarey” to be on a slow moving vehicle when big tractortrailers can come roaring up Route 231.
Tholand’s lawyer presented photos from the scene of the accident in an attempt to show that the Datsun "must have been traveling at an incredible rate of speed” for Tholand not to have seen it before the accident. The lawyer maintained that no turn signal was needed since Tholand believed there were no other cars on the highway that would be affected by his turn.
Commonwealth attorney Douglas Baumgardner invoked the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. The photos showed, according to Baumgardner,
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