'This doesn't happen around here...' Shock and disbelief as man seriously hurt after becoming trapped under digger

Locals were woken by the sound of an air ambulance this morning following a horrific incident near a supermarket in Bury.

Police officers, fire crews and paramedics rushed to Spring Street, near Asda on Friday morning (October 6) after a man became trapped under a digger - leaving him seriously hurt.

According to eye witness reports, the man was trapped under a tractor that he was unloading from a HGV. The man suffered serious, but not life-threatening injuries according to GMP.

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Local resident Hazi Muhammad told the M.E.N that he was there when emergency services were trying to rescue the man. "I think he was driving the tractor off the truck and it toppled over." Said the 18-year-old.

"Fire service were trying to get him out. They had some sort of pump.”

The mood in the neighbourhood was one of shock and disbelief as curious bystanders walked by the large cordon that was placed in front of the local supermarket. A small section of the car park was blocked off from shoppers while emergency services carried out their work with police, forensics, construction workers and Asda staff surveying the area.

Speaking to the MEN one passer-by said: "I heard the ambulance this morning. That’s what woke me up so I went to Asda and saw loads of police and firemen.

"The ambulance parked up on Matalan car park and the firemen were cutting him out of the tractor but I couldn’t see him."

Another resident added: "It’s shocking. Something like this doesn’t happen around here." While another person said: "“I heard loads of sirens and a helicopter I came out