Child dead after being run over by tractor at Halloween haunted hay ride

The kids were playing adjacent a hay thrust tractor way erstwhile the mishap happened.

A kid has died aft accidentally being tally implicit by a tractor portion playing adjacent a haunted hay ride, constabulary said.

Authorities from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office successful Tennessee, on with Hamilton County EMS and the Highway 58 Fire Department, responded to a telephone regarding a juvenile who had been "struck by a tractor" adjacent the 8200 artifact of Highway 58 astatine astir 10:45 p.m. connected Friday night, according to a connection from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

"Upon arrival, HCSO deputies spoke with a chaperone for a radical of juveniles that had been playing adjacent a hay thrust tractor way and were down immoderate bushes trying to scare immoderate hay riders astatine the Haunted Hilltop Halloween event," constabulary said. "Deputies were told that 1 of the juveniles had attempted to leap connected the trailer and had perchance slipped and fallen underneath the wheels and was recovered unresponsive."

The unnamed juvenile succumbed to their injuries and was pronounced dormant astatine the scene, officials said.

Hamilton County Sheriff's Office detectives and the Hamilton County Medical Examiner's Office instantly responded to the country arsenic good to assistance with the probe into however the kid managed to autumn nether the tractor portion playing around.

"The HCSO household extends our thoughts and sympathy to the household of the deceased juvenile, arsenic good arsenic the others who witnessed the tragic event," constabulary said. "We inquire the assemblage besides support this household successful their prayers during this hard time."

The probe is presently ongoing and nary further accusation is being made available.