The horror won the small town of Bethon, located on the border between the Marne and the Aube, this Thursday.
A four-month-old baby died after being run over by a tractor during the harvest, according to information from our colleagues from Est Éclair.
According to the regional daily, the infant had been placed in the shade of the wheel of the agricultural machine.
The little victim did not survive his injuries and arrived dead at the Romilly-sur-Seine hospital.
A similar accident took place on Wednesday August 24 in a village in Haute-Garonne.
A three-year-old boy who was on board a tractor with his father fell from the cab and his head fell under one of the machine's rear wheels.
On August 22, 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.
