Posted on 07/07/2011 11:50:14 AM PDT by paul in cape
SANGERVILLE, Maine - Officials say a Dover-Foxcroft woman was in critical condition after being impaled by a tree branch that crashed through her car windshield during a storm.
Rory Schmand was driving on Douty Hill Road at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when the branch fell through the windshield, striking the 47-year-old woman between the eyes. She was flown to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for treatment.
Investigator Guy Dow of the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department said a witness told him he was outside cleaning up when he heard a crack and saw the branch crash through the windshield of Schmand's Ford Explorer. Dow said the man smashed out a window so he could unlock the vehicle's door and reach Schmand.
between the eyes!..........prayers!................
Ouch...
It would be ironic if she turns out to be a tree hugger.
I thought is was against the law to drive while impaled?
“I thought is was against the law to drive while impaled?”
Absolutely, that’s why once she was impaled, she stopped.
in this case it’s a matter of being IWD rather than DWI
Please say a prayer for her.
Unless ya belong to a splinter group.
She’s gonna have a nasty scar....
ugh, those messages are heart-breaking :(
The message board stated that the tree limb/stick went into her brain and she has a 10% chance of survival. Prayers for her and her family. She is only 47 years old. This is an accident that you don’t hear about everyday but obviously very serious.
I’ll grant you...
The woman’s got wood...
This poor woman likely knows not what hit her - no time for fear. My prayers are that she was a believer, and that her family have comfort that they will all be gloriously reunited in the hereafter.
Do you think she’ll have a knot on that scar and will the scar eventually be used to identify how many years she has been on earth?
A face cord...split an stacked !
This experience has probably whittled away a good chunk of her life.
But, knock on wood, she will recover....
Vendome can’t do no moh dumb jokes...least they mood takes root with other Freepers and branches into some sort of macrabe humor.
The bloom is off this rose....moving on...
I take my leave of you...
Was she driving an Impala
Leaf this poor woman to recover and put some bark on her...
These jokes were told in the vein of a bunch of stadia and a bit of humic, by a friend named pete and should not come at the expense of the blossoming flower she probably is.
Awl!!!
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