October 27, 2017 - State Highway 7 West was the scene of a tractor crash Friday, October 27, 2017.
The tractor traveled approximately 30 feett downhill before crashing at the bottom.
According to Texas Department of Public Safety State Trooper Taylor Buster, at 5pm Ricky Hernandez, 28, of Jacksonville was mowing alongside State Highway 7 West just two miles west of FM 711.
The red Massey Ferguson tractor began to slip to the right down a hill and started flipping as it traveled down the slope until it came to rest against a tree and on its top at the bottom of the hill. Hernandez rode the tractor the whole way down.
No injuries were reported as a result of the crash.
The West Shelby County Volunteer Fire Department and Center Fire Department were both dispatched to the scene where they assisted in the extraction of the tractor and with traffic control.
East Texas Towing and Recovery as well as Hughes Wrecker Service worked together to pull first the mower and then the tractor itself back up the hill.
