A child is run over by a garbage truck while sleeping in a dumpster | the Chronicle

In the last hours of this Tuesday a tragic accident shocked Australia. A 13-year-old boy died of serious injuries sustained by a garbage truck while sleeping in a dumpster.

The event occurred in the city of Port Lincoln at 5:20 a.m. on Tuesday, local time and next to the minor there were two other teenagers who were also sleeping, 11 and 12 years old, who managed to escape.

The vehicle Garbage collector, I empty the contents of the container with the three smaller ones inside. One of them managed to jump in time, while another who was locked inside was also able to escape, but the third who was trapped suffered serious injuries which resulted in his death.

It was one of the children who managed to escape the situation who alerted the driver of the garbage truck to what was going on, but the man could not stop the machine before the tragedy happened.

“When the basket was lifted, one of the children managed to get out. However, it appears the other two rolled over with the container when they loaded it onto the truck. “Said the Superintendent Paul bahr, as published by The Sidney Morning Herald.

“One of the children survived and was relatively unharmed. However, the other child suffered fatal injuries as a result of this clue and died at the scene.“, he expressed.

According to the superintendent the boy who managed to escape “started knocking on the cab door to alert the driver “, although the man failed to deactivate the mechanism in time.

Emergency services who came to the scene they were unable to resuscitate the seriously injured minor and he was pronounced dead at the scene after the dramatic accident.

Local authorities have assured that this is the first time they have found people sleeping inside the containers and that the miners had a home.

Images of the accident in Australia