Toddler Dies...Front End Loader Ride

[shane]

Toddler dies in farm accident - Kentucky New Era: News

Very heartbreaking!

 

[Big Bri]

Vary sad but what the heck is a 6 year old doing driving a tractor down the road and why do they put 3 people in the bucket when he/she is driving. . . people are crazy.

 

[rekees4300]

This is so outrageous it goes beyond negligence. It should be handled as a criminal case!

 

[magicheater]

SAD and then some

 

[Gods Country]

A 6-year-old child was driving the tractor

:thumbdown:

 

[blueriver]

Very sad ...

 

[Mousefield]

Kind of depressing to read about this. Sometimes it seems all that is needed is a bit of common sense; guess it's not all that common. :mur:

 

[JoelD]

Terrible accident. It is tough to argue that an adult somewhere in all this should not be held accountable. All we can do is learn from it. Easy to forget how young our children are sometimes.

 

[doall]

that's horrible and sad.

 

[jimmyj]

I read the title of the post and thought "no no no no no not again". Then I read the post and thought, what a terrible, avoidable disaster. SAD

 

[merrickvilleguy]

There is no excuse for this ... as cute as it is to have young children (a 6 year old) driving tractors/backhoes etc ... they aren't capable of doing it safely ... and while we all rode in a bucket in our youth, like riding in the bed of a pickup on the highway or not wearing seatbelts, we know better now

 

[Mace Canute]

Here's another one that makes me cringe! What goes through some peoples minds? The positive comments that the viewers make are alarming to say the least. I can only believe they are at the shallow (very shallow) end of the gene pool. Apparently it's an old vid from December 31, 2006 but I never saw it before.

YouTube - 3 year old operates mini excavator

 

[Duffster]

Here's another one that makes me cringe! What goes through some peoples minds? The positive comments that the viewers make are alarming to say the least. I can only believe they are at the shallow (very shallow) end of the gene pool. Apparently it's an old vid from December 31, 2006 but I never saw it before.

YouTube - 3 year old operates mini excavator

I love that video.

Have you ever operated a mini ex before?

That is in no way even similar to what happened in the OP.

 

[jonyyuma]

Very Sad. Why allow a child to operate machinery with another child riding. We had one run over his brother with a riding lawnmower.Brother was riding on the hood, and "Said bet you can't throw me off". Both were Teenagers? he lived but with a leg chopped up to remind him for the rest of his life.Jy