The 12-year-old victim was the farmer's nephew. He'd been helping bale hay on his uncle's 700-acre farm. A wagon, without brakes and piled high with hay bales, was parked on what seemed to be level ground, without wheel chocks. The boy jumped from the truck to hitch the wagon as the farmer reversed his one-ton truck into position in front of it. When the boy lifted the wagon's tongue, the wagon slowly rolled forward. The boy apparently didn't realize his head was directly between the truck's metal bed and the wagon's edge. He may have been too busy trying to drop […]
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