Mom dies after tree crashes onto her car during crippling storm
A dramatic storm downed a tree that killed a mom driving in Westchester County, New York, as a lightning bolt struck the Statue of Liberty.
A mother died after a tree torn down by a dramatic and crippling storm in New York smashed her car.
The woman was driving alone northbound on Route 128 in Armonk in Westchester County, New York, when the tree hit her car around 5.30pm on Wednesday, according to the North Castle Police Department.
Westchester Fire Wire around 5.40pm posted on Facebook that emergency responders were dispatched to a tree fallen on a car and one unresponsive victim inside on Main Street.
‘One confirmed unresponsive in the car, cancelling the medic,’ the agency wrote in an update.
The woman was not immediately identified.
Her was notified and her child’s school announced counseling resources on Thursday.
The woman’s death is under investigation by the North Castle and Westchester County police departments.
The storm that battered much of the East Coast from the Northeast to parts of Florida brought down multiple trees in New York beside the one that killed the mom between School Street and Leisure Farm Drive.
A big tree that collapsed in the Marble Hill area of Manhattan damaged parked vehicles and downed power lines. Another tree that fell in the Upper West Side blocked a local business and the street. Trees also dropped in Central Park near West 62nd Street and Pelhamdale Avenue in Pelham Manor.
Multiple dramatic scenes and footage were captured of the storm. Images showed a lighting bolt appearing to strike the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
‘She’s Electric,’ wrote an X (Twitter) user who shared several images on Wednesday evening. ‘This afternoons passing storm didn’t disappoint.’
A Citizen user shared a video of a sinking boat in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn.
The mother died more than two months after a power line fell on an SUV and electrocuted a 21-year-old mother, her boyfriend and her brother to death in Portland, Oregon. The couple’s nine-month-old baby miraculously survived while being held in his father’s arms.
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