TRACTOR ROLLS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 18

TRACTOR ROLLS

Man Crushed

By

Track

A man was killed instantly when he was crushed beneath the three-ton crawler tractor he was driving on Panorama road, Clifton, at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. He was

Cedric John Maar, aged 29, believed single, who boarded at 264 Riccarton road. Mr Maar’s parents live in Palmerston North, and he had been living in Christchurch for about eight years.

Mr Haar was employed as a driver by a contractor working in Panorama road for the Christchurch Drainage Board The tractor, fitted with a front-end loader, overbalanced on the steep incline and rolled right over, landing upright on its tracks about 20 feet below, with the driver pinned under the right-hand track.

Other men in the drainage gang said Mr Haar tried to leap clear but was caught as the machine overturned. A heavy crane was brought to lift the tractor and release the' body. Mr Haar was dead when Dr D. J. Thompson, of Sumner, arrived. The doctor said death had been instantaneous. Constable A. Cromie, of the Sumner police, attended the accident. An inquest will be opened before the acting District Coroner (Mr P. A. Le Brun, J.P.) today.