Wrong Place, Wrong Time
When your number is up, it’s up.
A passing jogger was fatally crushed in a Central Florida neighborhood Tuesday when a 40-foot magnolia tree fell on her, according to Local 6 News.
Titusville police said Amber Ferrall, 27, (pictured, right) was reported missing after she did not come home from her daily morning jog Tuesday.
City of Titsuville workers who were called to remove a large fallen tree on Rainey Road and County Club Drive found Ferrall’s body underneath the tree trunk.
Police said Farrell was pinned under the tree’s 2-foot wide trunk when it fell on her as she was jogging about 25 feet away on the side of a residential street.
The rotten roots of the tree apparently gave way and it landed on top of her in the middle of the road at 3740 Raney Road, police said.
“It’s a really freak, tragic accident,” Titusville Police spokesman Todd Hutchinson said.
The tree was planted in the front yard of a home in an upscale neighborhood, and Farrell likely didn’t see the tree falling since it struck her from behind, Hutchinson said. “We don’t believe she saw it coming,” Hutchinson said.
No one had been digging around the tree or working on it in any way, said Hugh Brown, who owns the home and well-trimmed front yard in which he said the tree had been standing without issue for at least 10 years.
Farrell, who worked at a hair salon, had a 6-year-old daughter.
Bizarre! I could ponder that one for quite a while…