Police continue to investigate after 7-year-old dies in farming accident

Posted August 31, 2014 4:06 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

TWEED, Ont. – Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after a seven-year-old girl died in a farming accident in Tweed.

Police say the girl fell from a moving tractor which struck her on Friday night.

She died at hospital.

The girl’s name isn’t being released.

Police say the Ministry of Agriculture has been notified and the investigation is ongoing.

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