Falling Tree Branch Narrowly Misses Mother and Daughter in Hoboken

A 15-foot tree branch came crashing down in Columbus Park in Hoboken on Thursday, narrowly missing a local mother and her young daughter.

The mother was sitting under an American Sycamore tree when the limb broke and fell “just a few feet away,” reported CBS New York.

“A spokesperson for Hudson County estimates its likely been a month as crews are out daily making visual assessments across the 12 county parks, however, many who visit Columbus Park almost daily say they haven’t seen it happen,” the report stated.

Injuries and fatalities from falling tree branches are rare, but they do happen.

• A 40-pound limb killed a tree removal worker at a nudist colony in Somerset County in 2012
• A Millburn man sued the township, the Township’s Advisory Shade Tree Commission and the property owners when a large tree branch fell on his truck in 2011
• A Tinton falls woman was seriously injured when a tree branch was driven through the windshield of her car during a storm in 2014
• A massive tree branch narrowly missed two young girls in Jersey City when it crashed down in 2013

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