A mother and her two daughters escaped unharmed after a massive tree fell on their car Monday morning in southwest Atlanta.

“I was at the red light, taking my baby to school and a tree fell,” Danielle Harding said after the tree stopped her 2015 Kia Forte in its place on Benjamin E. Mays Drive.

Harding and her daughters, 9 and 2, were en route to West Manor Elementary School when the incident happened shortly after 8 a.m.

“Oh my God,” Harding recalled the girls screaming. “Oh my God!”

Everyone made it out of the car safely, but the tree snapped two power poles on its way down. Police reported outages in the area.

There was no apparent reason that the tree fell.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Harding said.

While she is grateful to be alive, the ordeal left her frazzled.

“I need a cigarette,” she said.

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