88-year-old dead in tractor accident in Monroe

An 88-year-old man has died in an accident involving a tractor while mowing the lawn in Monroe. 

Police were called to a home in the 9000 block of Finzel Road around 7 p.m. Sunday when neighbors saw a tractor overturned in a ditch. 

Police say the man was mowing his yard using a farm tractor, when he made a turn causing the tractor to overturn into a ditch and trap him underneath.

Fire and rescue officials also came to the scene and tried to save the man, but he was eventually pronounced dead. 

Police say the man is James Adams, from Exeter Township.