Coroner issues safety warning after farmer became trapped under quad bike

West Cork man who was tending his sheep had just turned down the offer of help from a neighbour

Coroner for south Cork Frank O'Connell.

A coroner has issued a warning to farmers over the use of quad bikes after a case in which a man tending to sheep became trapped under the vehicle and died.

Frank O’Connell delivered a verdict of accidental death in the case of Michael Cronin, whose body was found underneath his quad bike, at his outside farm at Coomanore, near Bantry, on June 3 last year.