State v. Hostetler

This cause came on to be heard upon an appeal from the Madison County Municipal Court.

On May 23,1986, defendant-appellant, Gary L. Hostetler, was driving a farm tractor with a cultivator on a two-lane road in Madison County. The cultivator, normally forty feet wide, was folded to a width of twenty-one feet while on the highway.

Although appellant’s vehicle was as far to the right as it could go, approximately four feet of the cultivator extended into the opposite lane. As appellant rounded a curve, a pickup truck driven by Edward Albright approached in its own lane from the opposite direction.…