Three people escaped injury Thursday morning when a massive tree fell onto a couple of vehicles on a north Fulton County road.
The uprooted tree fell across Birmingham Road near Birmingham Highway in Milton about 6:40 a.m. Thursday.
Jennifer Prince said she was driving her 7-year-old daughter, Piper, to Cornerstone Christian Academy in Norcross when the “giant tree” fell into her path.
“I swerved to get out of the way, but the tree ended up falling on top of the Jeep and we were trapped in it and had to be cut out by firemen and policemen,” she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Prince said her daughter, a first-grader, was in a booster seat, strapped into the backseat of the Jeep during the 20 minutes it took rescuers to get to them.
“She was scared and crying at first, but then her main concern was if she could get to school on time for her field trip to Cagle’s Dairy,” she said.
Piper wasn’t the only one scared.
“That was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been through, and it seemed to happen in slow motion,” her mother said.
“I’m just glad we were able to pull to the side as far as we could so we didn’t get the full impact of the tree,” Prince said. “It was a miracle that we were not directly under it.”
Prince’s husband, Chris, said he had just gotten out of the shower when his wife called him.
“She told me, ‘I’m under a tree in a ditch,” Chris Prince said. “She was clearly scared, but they seemed to be OK.”
He said another motorist coming from the opposite direction had to be cut out of his vehicle as well. That motorist, whose name was not immediately available, also escaped injury.
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