Traffic & Transit
Mount Vernon Woman Killed By Falling Tree On I-95 In Harrison
Breaking: The freak accident on the New England Thruway happened just after the evening rush hour on Tuesday.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — A Westchester County woman has been identified as the only casualty of a freak weather-related automobile accident yesterday evening.
On Tuesday evening, at around 6:30 p.m., state police responded to a report of a personal injury crash on I-95, between exits 18B (White Plains) and 19 (Rye/Harrison), involving a car and a fallen tree.
Crash investigators believe that Susan D. Braga, 34, of Mount Vernon, was traveling southbound in the area of mile marker 10.5, when a tree fell on top of her 2009 Toyota Prius. The tree bounced off the roof upon impact and the Toyota continued a short distance until it came to rest against a Ford F250.
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The driver of the truck, Jonathan C. Bellemare, 36, of Kennebunk, ME, was not injured. Braga, however, suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The crash was reconstructed by the New York State Police Troop K Collision Reconstruction Unit (CRU) and remains under investigation.
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