Stunning Video: Giant Tree Spectacularly Obliterates Car With Woman Inside — She Escapes Instantly

Tommy ChristopherApr 8th, 2025, 10:30 am
 

Stunning surveillance video shows a Pennsylvania woman narrowly escaped death when a giant tree suddenly fell and absolutely destroyed her car — with her in it.

The clip — from a surveillance camera at the Karco gas station across the street — shows a white vehicle coming to a stop on the street when the enormous arboreal hazard comes crashing down, essentially exploding the car and smashing a road sign. The tree shattered into thousands of pieces.

But seconds later, the driver — identified as Christina Mattoscio — emerged alive, if not entirely unscathed. From CBS News Philadelphia:

Officials identified the driver of the SUV as 40-year-old Christina Mattoscio, who was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident. Mattoscio did sustain injuries and was later taken to a nearby hospital, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

CBS News Philadelphia obtained the video from a KARCO gas station in the 1600 block of East Street Road in Kennett Square.

The footage shows a 2017 Ford Escape stopped behind another vehicle. Seconds later, a tree came crashing down on the back of the SUV on Lenape Road before East Street Road in Pennsbury Township.

Footage of the crash was widely circulated on X/Twitter, along with astonished and at times odd reactions:

Multiple news outlets pointed out that there were multiple trees in the area that appeared to be dead, and warned of the need for property owners to take care of potentially hazardous foliage.

Watch above via CBS News Philadelphia and others, and read more on the subject of “tree” here.

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