A Virginia grandmother was reportedly killed when a tire crashed by the windshield of a SUV she and her household had been touring in as they headed to a theme park.
Tammy Parsons, 53, was along with her fiancé, two youngsters and two grandchildren in a Ford Explorer on Interstate 64 in York County Sunday, when a tire got here off a Jeep touring in the wrong way and hit the motive force’s aspect of the SUV, in response to WAVY-TV.
Parsons, of Williamsburg, was pronounced lifeless on the scene, police mentioned, in response to the Virginian-Pilot.
Nobody else was damage within the crash.
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A 53-year-old Virginia girl was killed Sunday when a tire smashed by the window of her automobile. (Virginia State Police )
“She was 100% dedicated to her youngsters, all the best way, there was nothing, nothing she wouldn’t do,” her fiancé Joseph Palumbo instructed WTVR-TV. “She is by far the very best, finest girl I’ve ever met in my life … I misplaced a soulmate.”
He mentioned he had been with Parsons for greater than 10 years.
Prices may very well be forthcoming, WTVR reported.
Neither alcohol nor rushing was thought of an element within the crash, in response to the Virginian-Pilot.
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Palumbo mentioned Parsons’ daughter Skyler saved the remainder of the household from getting damage within the crash.
“When that tire hit, her second-oldest daughter jumped up over her mother to assist me slam that automobile into the guardrail, so we’d cease and never crash and presumably get killed,” he instructed WRIC-TV. “That takes pure power in my eyes. And what? That comes from their mother.”
Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Va. (Jeff Greenberg/Common Pictures Group through Getty Pictures/File/Fox Information)
The household had reportedly been driving to Busch Gardens’ Howl-O-Scream occasion in Williamsburg.
Palumbo mentioned he was stunned this week to obtain a Halloween ornament he did not know Parsons had ordered earlier than her loss of life.
“I didn’t realize it was coming,” he instructed WVEC-TV. “I’m not going to lie. It introduced slightly tear.”
He added, “That is how I’m going to have a look at it. [She] gave her life to avoid wasting all people that was in that automobile. All of us walked away that day due to her.”
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