A 12-year-old boy is dead after becoming pinned under a trailer door in a Red Deer industrial park.
RCMP describe the covered utility trailer as the type of unit ATVs or dirt bikes are transported in, with a heavy door that comes down on hinges and doubles as a ramp.
“The family was there, the kids were playing and the boy wandered off and for some reason opened the trailer door and it fell on him,” said Cpl. Kathe Deheer, adding the boy’s parents and siblings witnessed the incident.
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“We have a family that is extremely distraught, sad and grieving.”
The incident happened just before 4 p.m. in the Chiles Industrial Park in north Red Deer.
The boy was unconscious when emergency services responded, police said. Mounties blocked intersections en route to hospital so the ambulance could travel more quickly, but he died upon arrival.
“He was very critically injured at the scene,” said Deheer.
Red Deer City RCMP victim services officials were with the family and other people affected by this incident offering comfort and support.
“It’s very, very sad,” said Deheer.
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