Boy dies after museum traction engine accident

[Stephen]

A seven-year-old boy has died following an accident involving a steam traction engine and trailer at an open-air museum in County Durham.Police and an ambulance crew were called to Beamish Museum, in Stanley, just before 15:00 BST.
The boy was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering serious head injuries.
The engine driver was also taken by ambulance to University Hospital of North Durham suffering from shock.
Durham Constabulary said it was conducting a joint inquiry with the Health and Safety Executive.
Insp Steve Dowdle said: "The engine driver will be spoken to by police at an appropriate time and is being treated as a witness.
"The identities of those involved are not being released, but it is understood that neither of them were visitors to the museum.
"Detectives and roads policing officers are at the scene to establish exactly what took place and the Health and Safety Executive is also at the scene."
The museum's director Richard Evans said: "We are naturally shocked and our thoughts are with the boy's family at this time.
"We took an immediate decision to close the museum for the rest of the day as we support the joint investigation."
The open air museum aims to recreate life in a typical mining village in north-east England in 1913.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18947455

only seven years old so im gonna guess that serious head injuries probably means his head went splat

[GommeInc]

To be fair, a full grown adults head would go splat if they were run over (assuming that's what happened) by a steam traction engine, those things are shockingly heavy.

It's such a shame, they're quite interesting machines to see and the museum seems like quite a good place to visit.

EDIT: The officer in the video says "and a trailer", so it seems likely he was run over in front or by the trailer, or just fell out and cracked his head open. Either way, not a nice sight for the family, the driver and any eyewitnesses. Truely horrible

[Lee]

Very disturbing thing to have to witness for anybody who was there, sad news may he RIP.