Tragedy at farm near Lind

On August 24, Ritzville EMS and Adams County Deputies were dispatched to a farm accident where an eight-year-old boy had been run over by a tractor. At the time of the call, the boy was unresponsive. Adams County Dispatch provided the boy’s father with CPR procedures.

The location of the accident was in a farm field approximately a half mile north of Lind on Wahl Road.

Deputies arrived on scene and found the deceased boy lying next to the left rear track of the Case International Harvester 485 Quadtrac. The boy had suffered severe head trauma.

The father, who is the only witness to the inciden...