GREENE COUNTY — Video captured by a neighbor shows a driver narrowly avoid being crushed by a falling tree Wednesday night.
As reported on News Center 7 at 11, the driver, Cole Sellers, says he missed seeing the tree fall.
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“I was completely oblivious to it even happening,” Sellers said.
The video, taken just after 7 p.m. Wednesday, shows a leaning pine tree slowly begin to fall, just as Sellers in his red Hyundai drives through.
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“Next thing you know, I see the tree down, and I’m like, that wasn’t there when I turned in there three seconds ago. I just missed that,” Sellers said. “It went down completely silent. Because it’s a pine tree, it was really light and a lot of it was rotted out in the middle. You didn’t even hear it fall over, any crashing or nothing.”
Brittanie Jobes lives in the home that caught the tree falling on video. She said they noticed it was leaning more than usual during the storm.
“We knew it was coming. It was really top heavy,” Jobes said.
Shortly after the tree fell, neighbors came outside.
“We were all just kind of stepped outside. Like, what the heck just happened? Like, you have no idea how close you were,” Jobes said.
Neighbors say the city came to unblock the street around 11 p.m., just a few hours after the tree almost hit Sellers.
“Sometimes you’re like wow, I’m lucky. You just got to keep on going without letting it affect you,” Sellers said.
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