Fatal tractor accident in Durham

47-year-old William Pitney of New Jersey was killed today in a tractor accident, the Daily Freeman reports:

Deputies said they were called to the property on Sunside Road in Durham about 12:40 p.m. and, upon arriving, found  William Jackson Pitney, 47, of Ridge Wood, N.J., under the flipped tractor.

They said Pitney had been trying to pull out a tree stump when the tractor flipped over backward and landed on him.

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