Toddler dies in tractor accident

ČTK has reported that a two-year-old toddler died in an ambulance en route to hospital in Svitavy on Sunday, after suffering fatal wounds in a tractor accident. The little boy had been sitting on the tractor driver’s lap but slipped and was run-over by the vehicle’s roller. A police breathalyser test confirmed that the driver had consumed alcohol. Police are investigating the case as one of criminal negligence causing death which carries a sentence from one to six years in prison.