Man crushed to death at tractor pulling event

[j.m@talk]

A man's family watched in horror as he was crushed by a 30-tonne trailer at the European Tractor Pulling championships at Great Eccleston, Lancashire.

The 58-year-old man, named as Juan Alphen from Holland, was competing in the championships at Great Eccleston when he became trapped in a pulling unit.

Firefighters were called to the village showground at about 5pm on Sunday and used specialist cutting equipment to free him.

They were also assisted by a team from the Royal Preston Hospital.

The man was trapped for an hour-and-a-half before being airlfted to hospital. He later died of his injuries.

Police have been to the scene to carry out an investigation.

The tractor pulling event is believed to have attracted 15,000 spectators on Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.lep.co.uk/template/group/images/mastheads/PRES_masthead.gif

I was gonna go watch that on Sat...... Forgot it was on ...... Wooooo :(

[mireland]

:D

[leprechaun_40]

How cool is that? He died in a messy way in front of 15,000 people. ;)

[werz]

Why no photo's jm?
Did photobucket confiscate them.

[j.m@talk]

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/MMMJ/th_get_video_mpeg2video.jpg (http://s67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/MMMJ/?action=view&current=get_video_mpeg2video.flv)

The Crash :eek:

[leprechaun_40]

Can't see the guy being mashed, oh well. :eek:

[drewster]

I was hoping for some blood, or at least a loose arm :mad:

[j.m@talk]

http://www.ntto.nl/algemeen/

:(

[werz]

Someone open the link and tell me whats in there, I stopped opening jmz links when he used to post at the original BC. Some video nasties got through the censors there.
What censors, they wuz none!!!

[drewster]

Someone open the link and tell me whats in there, I stopped opening jmz links when he used to post at the original BC. Some video nasties got through the censors there.
What censors, they wuz none!!!

I opened it and it's all double dutch to me.

[werz]

Thanks, I didn't want to see squashed human, blood n gutz etc.
If there's ugly photos jm can find em.

[j.m@talk]

If there's ugly photos jm can find em.

Pickkies O' Werz abound ;)

[leprechaun_40]

Too bad it wasn't werz under the tractor :r