A PENSIONER from the Isle of Wight had a lucky escape — walking from her Vauxhall Corsa shaken, but uninjured — when a huge tree fell on her car in blustery conditions on Saturday morning.
The 73-year-old from Thorley, in the West Wight, had been driving from Freshwater to her home, via East Afton, when the 40ft fir tree collapsed across the road and onto her white car.
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Through a relative, the woman said she suddenly heard a loud bang and her windscreen smashed — stopping her in her tracks, on the Middle Road in Freshwater, between the junctions of Wilmingham Lane and The Causeway.
A man driving with his wife in the car directly in front of her, stopped after he saw what happened in his rear view mirror.
He immediately went to her aid, opened her car door to see if the woman was injured.
There were no passengers in her car.
To the shocked pensioner, he explained a tree had just fallen on her car.
The victim's relative, said: "She was very shaken, but able to get out the car."
Police and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service arrived a short time later. Paramedics were stood down once relatives arrived at the scene.
"She didn’t sleep well, but is feeling better. She keeps going over the day in her head though," the pensioner's relative added.
Island Roads said they tended the site, after receiving a call at around 8am.
The massive obstacle was eventually cut and cleared from the road later that morning, after Island Roads had put diversions in place.
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