Woman and Dog Escape Unharmed After Tree Crushes Car in Wenham Driveway

Brittney Barry and her dog Kovu had just gotten into her car in a Wenham driveway on Tuesday when she heard it – the sounds of a cracking tree.

Barry looked up to see a large tree coming down, straight at the Saturn Ion she was sitting in.

“It happened so fast I don’t remember how I got out,” Barry said during an interview with Patch on Wednesday morning in the driveway of on Main Street.

The survival story of Barry, 21, and her dog, a mini-Australian Shepherd, was first reported by WHDH-TV.

It happened at about 3 p.m. as Barry said she was leaving. She works at the home taking care of one of its owner, Charlie Cole, a well-known figure and former professional polo player at in Hamilton.

She was on the phone with friends in Salem, telling them she was on her way to pick them up.

“Then I heard crack, crack, crack and it smashed down,” Barry recalled. “It happened so fast.”

The passenger side was completely flattened and Barry said if she was sitting there she would have been killed. There was a bit more room on the driver’s side, but Barry said she would have surely been injured.

Since she walked away without a scrape, Barry said her friends hosted an impromptu “celebration of life” party for her on Tuesday night.

The car is actually owned by her aunt and Barry said she will wait until a representative of the insurance comes to take a look.