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Ruawai
By Kathryn Powley
A lucky little Ruawai boy appears to have escaped injury after apparently being run over by a tractor.
The two-and-a-half-year-old, who fell from the moving tractor, was the third remarkable callout in three weeks for the local fire brigade.
Members of the Ruawai Volunteer Fire Brigade were called out yesterday to provide emergency medical help after the accident about 11.30am.
But Chief Fire Officer Kevin Evan said that when his team arrived at the rural Ruawai address the boy appeared unhurt.
Mr Evans said the boy had been riding on the tractor, driven by an adult, when he had fallen off. The tractor had carried on, either running him over or grazing him as it went by.
“He looked pretty good; it sounded pretty bad,” Mr Evans said.
The “very, very lucky” boy was taken by the Helimed helicopter to Whangarei Hospital and was admitted for observation to the children’s
ward. He was in a stable condition yesterday afternoon.
Mr Evans said it was the brigade’s third “remarkable call” in three weeks.
The first was an “extremely lucky” escape on Boxing Day for the three occupants of a car that had crashed upside-down into a drain on Smith Canal Rd.
“Luckily one of them was skinny enough to get out of the car.”
That person raised the alarm and the others were cut from the car.
All were lucky to be alive, he said.
The second lucky escape was for two occupants of a car who were unharmed despite their car smashing into and destroying a power pole.
That crash occurred on State Highway 12 north of Ruawai, on New Year’s Day.
Mr Evans said the pole was smashed to “smithereens”.
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