Two deaths this year in tractor accidents on Tasmanian farms

A man has been killed in a fatal farming accident on a rural property.

A MAN has been killed in a farming accident in Tasmania’s north.

Police reported this morning, the owner of a property at Chudleigh, near Deloraine, had been killed on Tuesday afternoon in a tractor accident.

Tasmania Police and Tasmania Ambulance Service attended the scene about 5.30pm to find the 67-year-old farmer had died at the scene.

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Launceston Accident Investigation Services are investigating the circumstances of the accident

and a report is being prepared for the coroner.

The fatality comes after the death of an 87-year-old an in a tractor crash at a property in Benders Rd, Huonville on March 16.

More to come...