
A Pennsylvania woman killed after tree falls on her car while driving

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Pennsylvania, particularly the Lower Merion area, has seen several spring storms blow through. Spring storms mean pummeling rain and strong winds—and while most people worry about the roads being slick, visibility being low, and longer traveling times, locals know to watch the trees.
Trees commonly fall as storms pick up, and unfortunately, sometimes people are underneath them. Last year, two people were killed by falling trees in Pennsylvania. A woman in Montgomery County was killed in February by a tree that fell on her car while she was sitting in it.
On April 30, a man in Ross Township was killed after a tree fell on him as he was walking back into his house. During the same storm, a driver’s passenger was killed after one fell on their car while driving. The driver was not injured.
Not even a month later, the state’s old trees have claimed another victim—a 59-year-old woman. She was driving down a main road in Lower Merion when suddenly, part of a large tree split off and landed on her car. The 64-year-old woman in front of her car was also struck, reported NBC.
The 59-year-old woman was taken to the hospital, but she succumbed to her injuries an hour or so later. The other woman was treated for minor injuries and is in stable condition.
Locals felt sad, but they weren’t shocked
Facebook users commented on NBC’s post—many of them locals to Lower Merion—who felt sad about the woman’s death. They are, however, wary of the trees.
“So sad indeed,” one user wrote. “I walk there almost every day, and I do think of [trees falling] as well. It’s so scary.”
Another said they’ve learned to keep their eyes up while they’re around trees during a storm.
“We used to live in Wynnewood, and these old trees on personal properties are never trimmed,” they wrote. “I don’t know if that is the case in this horrible accident, but I am always looking up if I travel on a heavily wooded road after a storm.”
Someone else wrote that they love them, just not after a storm.
“The old trees are beautiful, but when we get so much rain and wind…” they wrote.