Efforts are currently underway to trace a tractor driver following a ‘hit-and-run’ accident in which a woman and a toddler were injured in England this week.
Traffic officers from North Yorkshire Police are investigating a collision in which a mother and young child were hurt are appealing for a tractor driver to come forward.
It happened yesterday evening, Wednesday, February 26, at around 7:25pm, the police force said.
A Volvo C30 and a tractor towing a trailer collided on Northallerton Road, Leeming in the north English county, according to the authorities.
Both the driver of the Volvo and her 18 month-old child were injured in the collision and attended hospital.
In a statement, it was stressed that police are appealing for the driver of the tractor to come forward and for anyone who may have witnessed the collision or either vehicle in the area at this time to contact them.
Anyone with information to call North Yorkshire Police on 101, select option 2 and ask for Emma Bainbridge,” the North Yorkshire Police statement said.
Farmer fined for pollution
Meanwhile, a farmer that pleaded guilty to allowing a polluting discharge from his farm to enter a waterway in the Cloughmills area of Co. Antrim has been fined £1,000 (€1,187), according to Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
Drew Forsythe pleaded guilty to the offence at Ballymena Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
The court was told that on February 7, 2019, a water quality inspector acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) responded to a report of pollution affecting a waterway at Omerbane Lane, Cloughmills.
The inspector observed fungal growth on the bed of the waterway and a smell of silage effluent was detected from the waterway.
This was traced back to the farmer’s yard, DAERA said.
