UPDATE: Tractor tragedy victim named locally as Edith Hannis (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

UPDATE: Tractor tragedy victim named locally as Edith Hannis

4:05pm Monday 10th September 2012 in News By Laura Shack

A WOMAN who died after a vintage tractor she was driving overturned near Cirencester has been named locally as Edith Hannis.

The 75-year-old woman, from Cranham, had been on her way home from a country show when her tractor turned on its side on Daneway Hill, Sapperton, at around 3.10pm on Saturday, September 8.

The woman, named locally as Edith Hannis, died at the scene from multiple injuries.

The 1967 red and grey Massey Ferguson 135 tractor had been involved in a vintage tractor rally and had been leaving the event when it clipped a grass verge on a steep hill and rolled over.

A number of onlookers called emergency services and are believed to have attempted to resuscitate the woman, who was unconscious and was not breathing.

A Great Western Air Ambulance, a rapid response vehicle, paramedic and an ambulance were scrambled to the scene, but the woman had already died from the traumatic injuries sustained.

The road was closed for around five hours whilst collision investigation officers carried out their work.

Anyone with any information about the collision, that has not yet spoken to officers, is asked to contact Gloucestershire Police on 101, quoting incident number 286 of September 8.