Westside Tractor Accident

It's a good thing he wasn't buckled-up.

A Westside man was rushed to hospital following a landscaping accident.

It happened at the victim's Parkinson Rd. home mid-Thursday morning when a bobcat rolled onto him. The man and machine ended up in an in-ground pool.

"He was on a bobcat and the retaining wall gave way and he ended up in the pool," says the man's wife.

She says the man suffered extensive bruising, a badly injured left arm and was having problems breathing.

The man's wife jumped into the pool to rescue her husband. She adds the outcome could have been worse had her husband been buckled-in.

"He had just started the machine up and hadn't put the seatbelt on. If he had put the belt on, I wouldn't have been able to hold him up out of the water and unbuckle the belt at the same time."

The couple had rented the bobcat the morning of the accident.