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Tree Crushes Florida Jogger Woman's Body Found While Cutters Clear Street
TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- A woman was crushed by a tree as she took a morning jog Tuesday, and it took
several hours for anyone to realize she had been killed.
It happened so quickly that Amber Farrell, 27, was unable to cry for help when a huge magnolia
tree fell across a road at the La Cita Golf and Country Club in Titusville. Farrell was
instantly crushed, and nobody knew she was under the tree until city workers started clearing it
from Raney Road.
"I was standing there. I was standing over her and didn't know it. I was dropping limbs, and I
didn't know it. It was awful. I started to run off then I caught myself and tried to get her out of
there," tree cutter Eddie Floyd said.
"We were watching them clean it up, and one of them said, 'Wait. Wait. Wait. There's somebody under
here.' I couldn't believe it," neighbor Beverly Phillips said.
Police said Farrell, a wife and mother of a 6-year-old daughter, jogged there every morning and
Phillips often saw her.
"This poor thing was just jogging. People jog here all the time. I came out to pick up the newspaper
a lot of times at 5:30 or 6 a.m., and we would wave and say hi," Phillips said.
When the big magnolia came crashing down in the darkness, Farrell had no chance. A 2-foot-wide
section of trunk hit her squarely and pinned her entire body parallel to the trunk. Homeowner Hugh
Brown did not hear the tree fall in his own front yard. He could only wonder at the horrible
coincidence.
"This is totally beyond me, totally beyond me," Brown said.
While police were at the scene, they received a phone call from a man who said his wife had gone out
jogging and had not returned. She was the one under the tree.
A tree expert said the tree roots were weak and just gave way under the huge weight of the tree.
The tree showed no outward sign of decay though and had been well maintained and trimmed by a
tree service.
"It seemed like she tried to get away, but she couldn't get away fast enough," tree cutter Rudolph
Jordan said.
Police said Farrell's family is "out of their minds with grief.".
http://www.wesh.com/news/2693704/detail.html
Tree Crushes Florida Jogger Woman's Body Found While Cutters Clear Street
TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- A woman was crushed by a tree as she took a morning jog Tuesday, and it took
several hours for anyone to realize she had been killed.
It happened so quickly that Amber Farrell, 27, was unable to cry for help when a huge magnolia
tree fell across a road at the La Cita Golf and Country Club in Titusville. Farrell was
instantly crushed, and nobody knew she was under the tree until city workers started clearing it
from Raney Road.
"I was standing there. I was standing over her and didn't know it. I was dropping limbs, and I
didn't know it. It was awful. I started to run off then I caught myself and tried to get her out of
there," tree cutter Eddie Floyd said.
"We were watching them clean it up, and one of them said, 'Wait. Wait. Wait. There's somebody under
here.' I couldn't believe it," neighbor Beverly Phillips said.
Police said Farrell, a wife and mother of a 6-year-old daughter, jogged there every morning and
Phillips often saw her.
"This poor thing was just jogging. People jog here all the time. I came out to pick up the newspaper
a lot of times at 5:30 or 6 a.m., and we would wave and say hi," Phillips said.
When the big magnolia came crashing down in the darkness, Farrell had no chance. A 2-foot-wide
section of trunk hit her squarely and pinned her entire body parallel to the trunk. Homeowner Hugh
Brown did not hear the tree fall in his own front yard. He could only wonder at the horrible
coincidence.
"This is totally beyond me, totally beyond me," Brown said.
While police were at the scene, they received a phone call from a man who said his wife had gone out
jogging and had not returned. She was the one under the tree.
A tree expert said the tree roots were weak and just gave way under the huge weight of the tree.
The tree showed no outward sign of decay though and had been well maintained and trimmed by a
tree service.
"It seemed like she tried to get away, but she couldn't get away fast enough," tree cutter Rudolph
Jordan said.
Police said Farrell's family is "out of their minds with grief.".
