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By ANTHONY COLAROSSI; Times Leader Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 20, 1996     Page: 2A

FRANKLIN TWP. — A Tunkhannock man ran over his 3-year-old son with a
pickup truck while working on a farm on Lewis Road Monday morning, police
said.
   
State police said Joseph John Miller, 29, hit and injured his son Jeffrey
while operating his 1976 Dodge truck about 11:10 a.m. Monday.
    Jeffrey Miller was in critical condition at Geisinger Medical Center in
Danville Monday evening, a hospital spokeswoman said.
   
The child was rushed from the scene by ambulance to a site at Francis
Slocum State Park in Kingston Township, from which he was transported by
helicopter to Geisinger.
   
A young neighbor said the child was playing on a tricycle at the time of
the accident.
   
“He was moving the tricycle out of the way, so he wouldn’t get hurt,” said
Kristin Harvey, 12, who came running when she heard the child had been hit.
   
“The truck ran over his chest,” Harvey said. “He wasn’t talking a lot, but
he was screaming.”
   
Esther Harvey, Jeffrey Miller’s great-grandmother, said Joseph Miller was
at his parent’s home on Lewis Road working on his truck when the accident
occurred.
   
State police are calling the incident “a private property accident” and are
continuing their investigation.