TEWKSBURY, MASS. (WHDH) – Fierce winds downed timber and branches throughout Massachusetts on Saturday as a fast-moving thunderstorm roared by way of the area, together with one department that narrowly missed putting a lady as she was driving her automobile.
“We heard a bang. I got here again with my son, visitors was being diverted down this little facet street right here and we noticed a tree throughout the automobile,” mentioned one resident who noticed a automobile with its hood smashed in by a fallen department.
“Proper throughout the hood. I imply yet one more second…who is aware of.”
The witness mentioned that regardless of the injury, the girl who was driving the automobile walked away with no accidents.
“She was calm. She was clearly just a little bit shaken up however she was very calm and really appreciative of everybody’s assist as folks stopped to verify she was OK,” they mentioned.
Police saved the street closed because the department was cleared from the world.
Derek Favreau says wind was the offender.
“I imply throughout that point it was only a burst of wind and it obtained chilly, it was very humid, it obtained chilly after which windy.”
The incident occurred as a Extreme Thunderstorm Warning had been issued by the Nationwide Climate Service.
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