VIC:Vic tractor man's prayers answered

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2011
VIC:Vic tractor man's prayers answered

A farmer trapped under a tractor in his fields spent the night praying for help before
being saved in the morning by a passing neighbour.

The 65-year-old was pinned under the tractor for about 16 hours when a neighbour found
him early today.

The neighbour called paramedics, police and firefighters to the farm at Berringa, west
of Melbourne, just before 8am.

Paramedic GRANT SEATER says the trapped man was conscious and stable, but had his right
arm, right leg and part of his pelvis pinned under the tractor.

Mr SEATER says the farmer's a religious man and spent the night on the muddy embankment
praying for help.

He was flown to Melbourne's The Alfred hospital, where his condition's described as
being critical but stable.

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KEYWORD: TRACTOR (MELBOURNE)

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