A TRAGIC EXPERIENCE.
. «-> The driver of a steam roller bad the terrible experience of seeing his threeyatNold baby killed by the machine he was drivirig. The father, Arthur Pettit, was driving the roller over a newly-made road at Hampden Park, a suburb of Eastbourne, Sussex, and, it is stated, the child, David Gordon Pettit, was being given a ride m the coal-box at the rear of the machine. While the machine was moving backwards, the child tumbled out on to the road, and before the vehicle could be stopped one of the wheels passed over his head, crushing^ it frightfully and killing the boy. The father states that he made a fruitless grab at the child as he \vas falling, and then immediately reversed the engine, but he was unable to stop m time to save the child.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9544, 24 June 1921, Page 3
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138A TRAGIC EXPERIENCE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9544, 24 June 1921, Page 3
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