Boy dies after being hit by tractor as desperate family flag down ambulance
Specialist officers are supporting the family of the boy, and ask that their privacy is respected.
Chief Inspector Ian Partington, of GMP’s Bury district, said: “This is a heart-breaking incident that has seen a young boy tragically lose his life.“Despite his family flagging down an ambulance while driving him towards hospital quickly as they could, the boy sadly could not be saved after the best efforts of paramedics.“We are working to ensure that a full investigation is carried out.
" The farmland where we understand this incident to have occurred remains cordoned off to allow our investigators and partners from the Health and Safety Executive to conduct thorough enquiries to establish exactly what has occurred here.” A police car was also involved in a minor collision with another vehicle in Bell Lane while officers were called to the scene of the horror.
The occupants of the second vehicle were taken to hospital as a precaution and the officer in the police car was uninjured.
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