It was a great day for the young boy to be out of school because he could help his dad on the farm. That afternoon they would be using the tractor to feed livestock. The boy’s father thought his son would be safe in the tractor cab, like he had been many other times. He didn’t expect the cab door to pop open when the tractor went over a rut. Before the father could step on the breaks, his son fell out of the cab and was run over by the rear wheel of the tractor. The boy was crushed under the weight of the tractor and died later at a hospital. The heritage being passed from one generation to the next ended in a few tragic seconds.

The details of this case are fictitious, but similar tragedies have occurred in Iowa. Too many Iowa youth under the age of 19 have died when they were run over by a tractor. In all cases, they were an extra rider