A mother died after a tree was ripped down by a dramatic and paralyzing storm storm in New York that hit 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.
A Westchester Fire Wire around 5.40pm posted on Facebook stated that emergency responders were dispatched to a car with a fallen tree and an 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 family 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 caused multiple trees to fall in New York in addition to the one that killed the mother, between School Street and Leisure Farm Drive.
A large tree that collapsed in the Marble Hill area of Manhattan damaged parked vehicles and brought down power lines. Another tree that fell in the Upper West Side blocked a local business and the street. Trees also fell 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 lightning 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 afternoon's 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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