A TEN-YEAR-OLD boy was crushed under the wheels of a trailer at his family’s North Yorkshire farm, an inquest has heard.
Jack William Simpson was spending the day with his father, Gary, in a tractor in the grounds of School House Farm, in Wensley, near Leyburn, last June when he fell beneath the rear wheel of a slurry spreader attached to the vehicle.
An inquest was told he died instantly, despite frantic efforts by his family, neighbours and paramedics to save him.
His great-uncle, Jeffrey Robinson, who witnessed the tragedy, said: “I was shouting at Gary to stop, but he couldn’t hear me in the tractor cab and the wheel went over Jack.”
Traffic Constable Stuart Langford, a collisions investigator, said the design of the cab meant Mr Simpson would not have been able to hear anything happening outside the vehicle.
Coroner Rob Turnbull instructed a jury to return a verdict of accidental death.
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