Tragic tractor accident claims life
A tragic farm accident here on Monday morning has claimed the life of a local man.
Dead is Orvie Brubacher. He was 47 years old.
On Sept. 30, at approximately 5:15am, Wellington County OPP officers received a call regarding a single-vehicle accident on Sideroad 19, approximately one kilometre north of Wellington Road 8, in Mapleton Township involving a farm tractor.
OPP officers responded to the scene along with paramedics from Guelph-Wellington Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and firefighters from Mapleton Township Fire and Rescue.
Police say Brubacher, a Mapleton Township resident, was travelling northbound on Sideroad 19 on a Case International tractor that was being driven by his 22-year-old son, also of Mapleton, when the tractor left the roadway and rolled over.
Brubacher was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver was uninjured.
Roads in the area were closed for several hours while the county OPP, assisted by Highway Safety Division officers, investigated the collision.
