A 15-year-old boy is dead following an incident on a farm near West Montrose on October 2.
He was driving the tractor, pulling a trailer when the vehicle flipped over while travelling down a hill. The boy was pinned underneath, causing severe trauma, said Waterloo Regional Police spokesman Olaf Heinzel.
“Some people nearby tried to pull him from underneath the tractor and assisted him until emergency medical services arrived.”
Police, fire and ambulance workers answered the call at the Samuel Weber farm on Jigs Hollow Road around 9:30 a.m. to attend to the boy, who showed no vital signs at the time, according to the dispatch call.
The teen was trapped under a tractor for some time, police report, but was no longer under the vehicle when emergency responders arrived on the scene.
Volunteer firefighters from the Conestogo station were the first responders and performed CPR on the boy until paramedics got to the farm and transported him by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The boy’s name has not been released to the public.
That was the second serious farm accident to occur in the area this week following the death of 47-year-old Orvie Brubacher of Mapleton Township on September 30. He was killed when the tractor he was riding rolled into a ditch at about 5:15 a.m. on Side Road 19 in the Drayton area. Brubacher was riding on the fender of the tractor driven by his son, 22-year-old Howard Brubacher, who was not injured in the incident. Wellington County OPP and highway safety division officers are investigating the incident.
