6 FARM NEWS
APR/MAY 2018 • farmers-mart.co.uk
Cambridgeshire
Partnership
fined after death
of employee
A farming partnership has been fined
£400,000 after a teenage employee died
when the tractor he was driving collided
with a bridge.
Cambridge Crown Court heard that
Harry Christian-Allan had been employed
by G W Topham & Son for three weeks
before the tractor and tandem-axle trailer
he was using to transport grain from the
Partnership’s farm in Eltisley to another
one of its farms in Weighbridge, failed to
negotiate a roundabout and struck the
bridge on Rusts Lane, Alconbury on 1
August 2014.
The 19-year-old sustained major inju-
ries and