Toddler under bulldozer at dump
A three year-old girl was run over by a bulldozer as she sat in a pushchair at the Waimairi County Council dump in Sawyers Arms Road yesterday. Rosalie Ann Howley, of 16 Hollyford Avenue, Bryndwr, suffered severe injuries to the lower part of her body. She was reported to be in an “only fair” condition in the intensive-care unit at Christchurch Hospital last evening. , St John ambulance assistants described her injuries as “very severe.” The police said the injured girl had been taken to the dump by her mother soon after I p.m. She had been sitting in the pushchair while her mother and an older child fossicked about the dump when the bulldozer backed over her. The bulldozer driver had been working covering refuse at the tip, the police said. He had not seen the injured girl until after the pushchair became caught in the bulldozer’s tracks.
The girl was treated at the scene by an emergencyteam doctor before being taken to hospital.
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