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Walnut Hill Woman Thankful Tree Stopped Pickup Before It Hit Her Granddaughter’s Bedroom
July 10, 2020
A Walnut Hill woman is thankful that a driver is okay after slamming into a tree in her yard, and thankful the tree stopped the vehicle before it crashed into her home.
About 4:45 a.m. Thursday, a pickup truck left Highway 97 near Arthur Brown Road, traveled across a yard and slammed into an oak tree and a car parked in Luanne Henderson’s yard. Just feet away in the direction the vehicle was traveling is her house. The pickup truck wrapped around the tree and was deflected away from the house.
Her granddaughter, who turned 11 Friday, was asleep in the bedroom.
“I have so much to be thankful for, but this morning I am thankful for that tree, and the fact that the gentleman involved walked away! God is good…everyday,” Henderson said.
The driver of the pickup truck refused transport to the hospital following the crash. The Florida Highway Patrol investigated.
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6 Responses to “Walnut Hill Woman Thankful Tree Stopped Pickup Before It Hit Her Granddaughter’s Bedroom”
looking at the tracks, looks like he’d have passed the house and kept going if not for the tree.
Again, the roads are not dangerous. Drivers are dangerous. That road did not push that truck into that tree. Telephone poles do not jump into the path of vehicles. Trees do not jump out into on coming traffic. It could have been a deer ran in front of the truck, and the driver was avoiding the deer, or a dog or some critter, or what ever it was. What ever, but it certainly wasn’t the road. However, just very glad no one was hurt.
Most likely intended to write “wasn’t seriously injured”
Justice. I would not consider being seriously injured as lucky.. I read he walked away from the wreck.
Gotta love this womans attitude, one of being thankful to God for all involved.
FYI, God rewards those with thankful hearts.
Highway 97 is dangerous.
Pickup trucks, cars, etc are always speeding on 97.
The driver is lucky he was seriously injured. The homeowner is also fortunate the truck didn’t crash into her home.