A 79-year-old man is dead after a tractor rolled over in South Dundas on Monday evening.
Ontario Provincial Police said they responded to the incident on a trail near the intersection of Caughnawaga Road and Forest Road at around 6 p.m. and located a tractor with a man pinned underneath.
Individuals had been walking on the trail when they first located the tractor, OPP said in a
social media post
.
The 79-year-old tractor operator from South Dundas Township was pronounced dead at the scene.
Initial investigations by OPP its traffic incident team have found that the tractor left the trail and rolled over, pinning the operator and resulting in fatal injuries.
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