A woman in her 63s died after a tree fell on her sleeping cabin at a holiday park in NSW. Her husband was rushed to hospital as a result.
Emergency services were dispatched to the scene at around 3.50 am on Merool Road, near the border of Victoria.
They found the body of the woman inside the cabin.
The branch from a large gumtree that fell onto the cabin, splitting it in half, was blown by strong winds of up to eighty kilometers per hour.
The woman and her husband, who were both 63 years old, had only bought the cabin a year ago.
According to Jack Bond, the community was in shock following the incident.
According to Jy Brown, a police officer in Victoria, the couple had been staying at the caravan park near Geelong.
He noted that the park had recently had an arborist examine the trees.
Brown said that an aborist was regularly checking the trees.
A spokesperson for the company that owns the park said that the trees were inspected recently.
The incident has left the company’s staff members “very distressed.”
The incident occurred at the Merool on the Murray Holiday Park in Moama.
The company extended its condolences to the family of the deceased woman and the man who was injured in the incident.
It also sent its thoughts to the other people who were affected by the incident.
My condolences go out to the woman’s family, and to the emergency services personnel who attended to the incident.
A report will be submitted to the coroner.
