A youngster was killed in an accident over the weekend after playing around on a forklift with mates.

Jayden Dalton, 15, of East Nashville was reportedly hanging out behind Gear Finders, a development rental firm, with mates when the incident occurred. Dalton and mates had someway managed to get a forklift working and started to trip round with it, in keeping with the Metro Nashville Police Division. A witness alleged that Dalton was doing "donut" maneuvers within the parking zone.

Throughout this joyride, the forklift overturned and crushed Dalton below its appreciable weight, finally killing him. Police dominated the incident and Dalton's loss of life to be an accident. In a GoFundMe submit, Dalton's household claimed that the forklift's keys had been left within the ignition.

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A teen boy was killed in Nashville over the weekend in an accident whereas joyriding in a forklift. Above, a wide range of forklift is seen in operation.Photograph by Adrian Sherratt/Building Pictures/Avalon/Getty Photographs

"The children, I assume that they had been driving round with the forklifts taking part in or no matter, and my nephew he was working round doing doughnuts and so [happened] the machine fell on him when he was making an attempt to really bounce out of the machine, so. And it really crushed him, it killed him," Latonya Dalton, Jayden's aunt, instructed station WKRN.

Dalton's aunt additionally claimed that her nephew had been trying to leap out of the forklift when it fell on him. His mom, Latasha Dalton, instructed Information 4 that he had hopped a fence to get onto the enterprise' premises on Sunday.

In a press release to the station, Gear Finders mentioned that it's awaiting the total police investigation earlier than issuing a press release.

"It is arduous out right here on these streets, these youngsters, they do not don't have anything else higher to do," Latonya Dalton added. "As you possibly can see, they will discover one thing to do if they do not don't have anything to do out right here... He is very cherished by all, everyone loves him. He can typically get in your nerves, however he is cherished by all."

Dalton was a freshman pupil at Maplewood Excessive Faculty within the Metro Nashville Public Faculty District, which additionally launched a press release on his passing.

"Our ideas are with the household and mates of Jaden Dalton, a Ninth-grade pupil at Maplewood Excessive who tragically misplaced his life in an accident yesterday," the district's assertion learn. "Our help staff has been working with the college to offer grief counseling as they mourn the lack of their classmate."

Latasha Dalton additional defined to Information 4 her response as soon as she acquired the information of her son's unintentional loss of life.

"I simply broke down in tears, and I could not take it in. It was too arduous to swallow," she mentioned. "Individuals are [driving by] honking as we speak, saying sorry on your loss, however that ain't bringing him again. I imply, he was little one, and I imply everyone cherished him."

The Dalton household has arrange a GoFundMe web page to pay for his funeral preparations. As of Tuesday evening, it had raised $485 of its $8,000 objective.