A child died crushed by a tractor following a fall this Wednesday morning, in Villemur-sur-Tarn (Haute-Garonne), reports France Bleu Occitanie.
The drama took place Wednesday morning, around 9 a.m., while a farmer was in his vehicle, working to mow his field.
His three-year-old son was then at his side in the tractor, which has no cabin or guardrail.
The little boy then fell to the ground, for an unknown reason.
The head of the child arrived at the level of the rear wheel of the vehicle, which could not avoid it, according to the assistant prosecutor of Toulouse, Alix Cabot-Chaumeton, quoted by France Bleu.
An investigation for manslaughter by clumsiness, negligence or recklessness has been opened.
Serial accidents this summer
This is not the first agricultural accident that has occurred this summer in France.
Monday, a 58-year-old farmer died on board his tractor in Montbarla (Tarn-et-Garonne), after losing control and falling into a pond.
At the beginning of August, a 66-year-old farm worker had seriously injured his head in an accident with his lawn tractor in Chars, in Val-d'Oise.
He had found himself trapped between the machine and its cutting device located at the front, and was hit in the skull.
In June, a three-year-old child died in an accident in Guipry-Messac, Ille-et-Vilaine, when he was there too alongside his father on board a tractor.
He had fallen from the vehicle and had been caught by the rotary cutter, a tool used to clear brush.