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• A Lincolnshire farmer has saved the life of an ownerdriver who was buried under tonnes of frozen vegetables.

20th January 2000
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Page 4, 20th January 2000 — • A Lincolnshire farmer has saved the life of an ownerdriver who was buried under tonnes of frozen vegetables.
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Reg Crabtree, 61, was at the Habertoff farm owned by Nigel Hancock shovelling animal feed off the back of his truck when an eight-tonne mound of frozen vegetables collapsed on top of him.

Hancock was feeding cattle when the accident happened, and only spotted the driver's plight when he saw a hand waving out the pile of peas, carrots and cauliflowers beside the trailer.

It took Hancock 30 minutes to get Crabtree out; ambulance crew wrapped him in foil and a blanket and took him to hospital where he was kept under observation for two hours before being allowed home.

"I thought I was a goner," says Crabtree. who operates a two-vehicle business from Wymondham. Leics.

"The whole pile suddenly collapsed, and it seemed as if I was underneath for an eternity," he adds, "I was frozen and couldn't move my legs. but I managed to keep a hand free, and just kept waving, If it hadn't been for the farmer that would have been it."

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