Police have reported that a man has been killed after the tractor he was driving had mounted a verge, leaving him trapped by the vehicle.
The man who has been named as Kevin Vallance, 54, from the Okehampton area, had become pinned by the tractor after being thrown from it when its nearside wheels dropped into a drainage gulley between the verge and the hedge.
At around 5.50pm on Sunday 12 May 2013 police were notified of a single vehicle collision on the unclassified road between Chilla and Chilla Chapel Cross, near Halwill Junction in the Beaworthy area of North Devon.
A tractor towing an un-laden trailer had mounted a verge to its nearside and its nearside wheels had dropped into a drainage gulley between the verge and the hedge.
