Friday, June 13, 2008

Farmer killed by sheepdog driving tractor

A farmer was crushed to death by machinery in a freak accident - caused by his sheepdog.

Harry Emslie, 67, left the border collie in the cab of a telescopic loader with the engine still running - and the handbrake off.

But as he shovelled rubbish into the bucket in front of the machine, the dog caught a control and it shot forward and pinned him against the wall of a farmshed.

Yesterday, police and Health and Safety Executive officers were probing the tragedy on Harry's farm close to Clola, near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.

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