TAMPA, Fla. — A woman's drive home from work ended suddenly with her car crushed under a huge tree.
She heard the loud crack first.
Before she knew it, a huge branch fell from a tree and toward her windshield. She hit the brake as it crashed into her car Wednesday evening on North Habana Avenue near MLK Jr. Blvd.
"What just happened," Beatriz Gonzalez remembers thinking. "It was all so fast."
Gonzalez was trapped in the car for just a minute afterward as other drivers stopped and ran to help. She crawled through the passenger-side door to get out.
Somehow, Gonzalez got away from the wrecked car without a scratch. The car, however, was crushed beyond repair and needed to be towed.
"It’s unbelievable," said Martha Cortes, Gonzalez's mother-in-law, who joined a small group of family at the scene of the crash.
“The minute I saw it I literally choked up because I couldn’t believe she survived that.”
It's unclear what caused the branch to crack and fall.
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