Watch: More details have emerged about the horrific death of a boy killed in a garbage skip. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - 7News
The 13-year-old boy who was killed when the industrial bin he was sleeping in was emptied into a truck has been named.
Spencer Benbolt was sleeping in the bin in Port Lincoln, Adelaide with two other children when the garbage truck came to empty it in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
One of the other boys, a 12-year-old, managed to escape from the bin and bang on the truck driver s window to alert him to the danger but it was too late.
PORT LINCOLN TRAGEDY
The Point opened with Tuesday’s tragic and heartbreaking news of the death of a 13-year-old, killed when the bin he was sleeping in with two other boys was collected by a garbage truck.
The tragedy has stunned the community in Port Lincoln, South Australia.
“This is a very tight-knit, relatively small community and everyone in this community will be impacted either directly or indirectly by this event,” said SA Police Superintendent Paul Bahr.
“We’ve spoken to both the (surviving) boys. Clearly, they re traumatised by what occurred. I think by the time that the truck driver was alerted there were people in the bin, it was at that point of being too late to stop the skip from tipping.
News by Ally Foster 12th May 2021 8:57 AM A South Australian community was rocked yesterday following news a 13-year-old boy had been killed after a bin he and two friends were sleeping in was picked up by a garbage truck. Questions immediately emerged about how the boys came to be inside the bin, with new information shedding more light on the tragic incident. Spencer Benbolt Junior, 13, was asleep in an industrial bin in Port Lincoln early on Tuesday with two other boys - aged 11 and 12 - when it started being emptied during a scheduled collection. As the bin was lifted, one boy managed to escape injury by jumping out, but the other two children became trapped.
The Lincoln Gardens Primary flew the Aboriginal flag at half mast in honour of the year 7 pupil, who is being remembered as "well-liked, friendly and caring."