Woman Killed By Falling Tree At Bristol Twp. Homeless Camp

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, PA — A woman at what police say was a homeless camp in Bristol Township was killed on Tuesday when a tree fell on her tent.

At about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday, Bristol Township Police were dispatched to the camp in a wooded area between Bristol Pike and Dixon Avenue. When they got there, witnesses told officer that a tree had fallen on the woman.

They said the woman's son had been notching a dead tree to make sure it fell away from the camp. But the tree snapped, fell the opposite way, glanced off of another tree and landed on the woman's tent, police said in a news release.

A 50-foot-long segment of the tree, between eight inches and a foot in diameter, hit the woman's torso as she was laying face down inside the tent. An autopsy performed Wednesday revealed the woman had died from blunt trauma to the chest consistent with what witnesses described, police say.

The Bucks County District Attorney's office will review the findings to ensure no charges are in order, according to police.

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