Posted on 04/07/2024 5:52:30 PM PDT by george76
A prominent Long Island pediatrician was killed when she tumbled out of a moving Airstream trailer — still clutching the door’s handle — and onto an upstate highway during a family road trip over the weekend, according to state police and kin.
Dr. Monika Woroniecka — a 58-year-old married mom and children’s allergy and immunology specialist with Stony Brook Medicine — was in the 2024 silver trailer with other family members when she fell through the door shortly after 3 p.m. and onto State Route 12E in Watertown in a freak accident, said police and family.
Woroniecka’s husband, Robert, 59, was driving the gray 2019 Ram pickup truck pulling the trailer at the time, according to a press release.
Motorists who witnessed the frightening fatal fall said the passenger-side door of the Airstream flew open, helped by the wind — while the doctor was clutching its handle, police said.
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The helpless woman landed on the shoulder of the highway, striking her head.
She was rushed to Samaritan Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
The traffic accident came as Woroniecka and other relatives boarded the trailer for the final 20 minutes of a road trip from Stony Brook, LI, where the family lives,
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still clutching the door’s handle
i think i see the problem...
The pic of the trailer shows the door opening from right to left, meaning into the wind. Maybe the door wasn’t locked properly and wasn’t sealed, so in her attempt to slightly open and reclose the door, it caught the airflow and ripped it open. That much suface area on the door would easily be enough to pull her out when it opened.
The pic of the trailer shows the door opening from right to left, meaning into the wind. Maybe the door wasn’t locked properly and wasn’t sealed, so in her attempt to slightly open and reclose the door, it caught the airflow and ripped it open. That much suface area on the door would easily be enough to pull her out when it opened.
They were breaking the law...riding in a “bumper-pull” type trailer in NY state is illegal. (5th Wheel is OK):
https://www.rvia.org/system/files/media/file/Riding%20in%20Towed%20RVs.pdf
(Riding in a “towed” is a bad idea in general...motorhome/Class B with seatbelts is a better idea).
We cannot know about her actions, but in our Airstream, we left the door open somehow— did we follow the check list? The door caught the wind and hit the catch hard enough to spring the door so that a mechanic was required to bend it back to a door that would close.
Interesting, in this condition we drove through a southern check point and no one noticed the open door. (The agent stood on the driver side and motioned us through.)
We never drove with a person or pet in the trailer though, it is not safe.
Good movie.
Loved that movie! “Trailer brakes FIRST!!!”
Ping
Yep... total idiot with a doctorate degree.
I just hope I won’t see an Airstream lawsuit, unless it says: ‘If you or your loved ones were STUPID enough to ride in an Airstream, call Chatham Law. We can’t give you smarts, but we’ll sue Thor Industries into bankruptcy.’ 🤓
It’s illegal in NYS.
Yep. Isn’t it illegal?
Boeing style lack of attention and DEI
Dire Straits song : Industrial disease
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subject matter of the lyrics was ostensibly the decline of the British manufacturing industry in the early 1980s,[2] describing strikes, clinical and economic depression, and societal dysfunction
When do Dems demand seatbelts in pull-behinds?
She is now the newest poster child for 'Education does not equal Common Sense'. I have met so many people that are book smart mensa geniuses but have no common sense at all. Maybe she should have Googled it before opening that door.
BTW, the article notes that the family knew that riding in a moving travel trailer is illegal in sone states.
What the family neglects to mention, though the article does, is that NYS is one of them.
I’ve never been in a trailer; but that was my first thought on seeing the article.
Yep.
Get an SUV or a crew cab pickup.
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