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A nine-year-old boy has died from head injuries after becoming crushed as he tried to open an electric gate at a block of flats.
Little Jason Keet had got out of his mother’s car to open the gate at the apartment complex where his grandparents lived in Poole, Dorset, and stuck his arm and head between the gate and gatepost to reach the controls.
Swinging open, the gate trapped the youngster against a concrete pillar, leaving him unable to escape and causing serious head injuries. Jason’s distraught mother was unable to free her son and he died at the scene from a cardiac arrest caused by his extensive personal injuries.
A resident at the block of flats, 72-year-old Beryl Lock, saw the tragic incident unfold and said, “I was in the bath when I heard a woman outside shouting, ‘Help, help!’
“I got out and went to the window in the study which overlooks the gates and saw the lad trapped in the gates. His family were trying to help him. It was just horrible.
“He wasn’t screaming and had already gone quiet.”
A spokesperson for the Health and Safety Executive revealed it was helping with police investigation into the incident, saying, “We are assisting the police to look at the gate mechanism to see if there were any problems with the product, to see whether there was a fault with the mechanism or whether it was a tragic accident.
“All of our findings will go to the police who will decide whether they want to pursue it or not. Of course we will look at any potential prosecution if there is a problem with the product.”
It is unknown if the boy’s family are planning to make a personal injury compensation claim.
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