First responders say it was nothing short of a miracle that a driver walked away uninjured today after her car was crushed by a large tree limb.
The freak accident happened around 11:39 a.m. on Wyly Street in Cornelia. The State Patrol says 66-year-old Diane Hall of Clarkesville was traveling south on Wyly in a 2010 Ford Fusion. She was approaching the intersection with South Main Street when the limb fell from a tree on the east side of the roadway and landed on top of her car.
The limb crushed the car and struck nearby power lines, causing a utility pole to break.
Hall managed to crawl out of the car from the passenger side. She was standing outside the mangled wreckage when first responders arrived.
“I pulled up and would have never dreamed anyone would crawl out of that vehicle, or what was left of it, uninjured,” says Habersham County Emergency Services Director Chad Black. “She most definitely had someone as her co-pilot today riding with her!”
Paramedics evaluated the driver. She later left the scene as firefighters chopped up the tree to remove it and the car from the roadway.
This article has been updated
