What should have been a regular trip to church yesterday morning for the Pinnock family in Turners, Clarendon, turned into a tragedy when James Pinnock inadvertently crushed his son to death.

Dead is 18-month-old Othneil Pinnock who was hit by his father's bus as he reversed from their yard.

It was a tearful Mrs. Pinnock who related the story to us: "We were going to church and my husband and I and a little girl, my daughter and another little boy and we ask a young man (name deleted) to hold the baby for us as my husband was reversing the bus," she explained.

"Him put the baby on the veranda and never know the baby was coming behind the bus ...and is the back wheel that crush him and it was his head," an obviously distraught Mrs. Pinnock told our newsroom.

Little Othneil was rushed to the Chapelton community hospital, but died before they could reach.

"He was the last child, and this is so hard to bear," is all she could say. The family then retired to an evening of prayer with friends and church members.