Woman killed in freak lawnmower accident named

By Andrew Hough and Chris Irvine Published: 11:31AM GMT 04 March 2010

Previous of Images Next Muraka Jenny Vearncombe Photo: Townsville Bulletin Muraka Jenny Vearncombe, 42, was struck a square of steel that had been thrown up by the tractor. Photo: TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN The tractor had been mowing weed on the dull retard of land. Photo: TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN The masculine tractor driver, a 48 year-old in isolation contractor, is in sanatorium pang shock following the weird accident. Photo: TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN

The Papua New Guinean-born 42-year-old mom of 3 was on foot to work in Townsville, north Queensland, Australia, died now when she was strike in the head by a square of siren sent drifting by the weed cutter, being dragged by a tractor. The 48-year-old masculine tractor driver, was taken to sanatorium in shock.

A crony of Ms Vearncombe, Vanessa Beuto, 33, told the Townsville Bulletin: "She was similar to my comparison sister.

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"She was a smashing person, so giving and loving."

Earlier reports referred to that the lady was decapitated and died now at the stage after on foot past an dull retard of land only after 8am.

Police Senior Sergeant Darren Randall pronounced that primary investigations referred to the situation was an accident.

""It"s a tragedy," he said. "She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She only happened to be in the expect arena of the pipe."

The weed mower is thought to have run over the pipe, promulgation it drifting in her citation at good speed.

Witnesses have been offering counselling whilst young kids at the internal Townsville Central State School were sent home for the day.

Cheryl Mortenson, a Queensland military spokesman, progressing pronounced the tractor lawnmower had been operative circuitously at the time the lady was on foot past.

"She had been on foot along the pavement when she was strike in the head by a square of drifting metal," she told The Daily Telegraph.

"The tractor was handling circuitously and she was struck in the head. We dont know if it was a square of steel or if it was an additional object."

One lady pronounced he had only driven around the dilemma only moments after the accident, where she detected the lady lying on the ground.

"The mower man was in shock, so I sat him down in the shade," she told the paper.

""It was a weird accident.""