Tom and his wife Meredith are alive and unharmed after being involved in a fatal car accident Friday afternoon.
“Tom and Meredith Brokaw, at around 1 PM … were in a three vehicle accident on the Bruckner Expressway. The Brokaws were in the far left lane when they noticed a spool of cable bouncing along the far right lane. Just then, a green SUV in the right lane came up fast and tried to avoid the cable. The driver lost control of her vehicle and slid into the middle lane, forcing a mail truck into the Brokaw lane of traffic.
As the mail truck careened into the Brokaw lane, Tom hit the brakes hard and skidded along the median. When the mail truck catapulted the median the Brokaw vehicle slid into it. Neither Tom nor Meredith were injured but tragically the driver of the SUV was thrown from her vehicle and killed.”
Brokaw and his wife both expressed sadness at the loss of life. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the woman who was killed. I saw a horrendous car crash a few weekends ago that shook me to the core– two semis, one on fire, and a crumpled gum wrapper that used to be a Cadillac Escalade. People were wandering around the grass median weeping and looking lost. It’s enough to make you never want to drive on the interstate again.
I’m not sure if the woman who was ejected was wearing her seatbelt, but it’s a good bet that she wasn’t. I’m amazed by people that don’t buckle their seatbelts. Would you leave the safety bar up on a roller coaster? No! And a car is worse- they don’t run on a track. You’re just hurtling along at 90 mph in a 4 door bullet with a bunch of other bullets being driven by people checking their voicemails and eating Big Macs and fighting with their kids or their boyfriends.
Buckle up, people! It’s such an easy thing to do that could potentially save your life. You have to be around to tell me how much my writing sucks and correct all my spelling mistakes.
i never wear my seat belt. like, ever. for years. 3 car accidents and i still haven’t learned – and none were my fault by the way….
but that roller coaster thing?? it just makes so much sense to me.
i will wear it now. i really will. so thank you.
You’re an asshole. Seatbelts save lives and you’re stupid for not wearing one. Go ahead and not wear one, but don’t be an asshole about it and don’t make it seem like it’s ok to not wear one. God, people like you DESERVE to die.
You’re an asshole.
Wow, Jessica, how do you really feel about it? Thanks for spewing your judgemental bullshit all over sal, I’m sure she really appreciates it, ESPECIALLY since she said that Kelly’s article changed her mind and that from now on she will start wearing her seatbelt.
But since Sal “deserves to die,” I guess the seatbelt won’t do her any good after all. Asshole.
WTF is she wearing, seriously? lol, I like how her eldest son seems to be trying to get as far away from her as possible. I sense some teen angst beginning. Seriously though, she looks underweight, she needs to eat more.
i think perhaps you responded to the wrong post. however i do agree with you point about the oldest son. looks very teenage “i hate my family why do i have to be with them” the younger kids kind of look like they are cheesing it up for the cameras.
The word “fatal” sort of suggests that they died.
Only that someone died. In this case, the other person.
100% with you on the seatbelts, Kelly. I know people in my husband’s home state of Georgia who don’t wear seatbelts on principle because they don’t like being told what to do. I find it hard to fathom.
I always wear my seatbelt, even if I’m on a coach. My friends laugh at me (about the coach thing), but I always remember a story about a coach of children that crashed in France, and the two that died where the only two not wearing a seatbelt. They’re there for a reason, people!
Me too!
The woman that died was not wearing her seatbelt, she was ejected out of her car and off the overpass onto the train tracks below. That is what the local affiliate out of Brooklyn reported right after the police showed up. Car crashes are horrific. Period. Too many people are still of the ilk “It will never happen to me, I’m a good driver” It’s bullshit, we’re all human and make mistakes. All it takes is one second of distraction or in this case a huge fucking spool careening down the highway.
I admit, I rarely wear a seatbelt in the back of a cab, but any other time I’m in a car I always wear a seatbelt. My hubs doesn’t because he doesn’t ‘like the way it feels”. I’ve been arguing with him since we were teenagers to just put the damned thing on. If just for the sake of making me feel better.
Seat belts save lives, that’s all there is too it. Had this woman been wearing her’s she would have been strapped into that car that ended up on it’s side. Not tossed hundreds of feet in the air off an overpass. It’s horrifying just to think of it. When it comes to car crashes and people, the car crash will always win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6qd_EXegc
Just so everyone can get a better view of what the highway/overpass looked like. (its just the AP footage)
Again, the manner in which this woman dies is terrifying. Wear your seat belts people! That way at least you stand a chance if something like this, God forbid happens.
I just hope the shock and trauma doesn’t make Tom Brokaw start to talk funny.
That’s hilari-sad.
ALWAYS wear a seat belt!!! No matter what.. no matter how far you go.. DO IT! My husband was in a small crash less than a month ago.. and he told me that his seat belt was the only thing that didn’t propel him into the passenger seat (he was hit on the driver side door. Just how old was the woman’s car anyway? Most newer cars will incessantly beep at you until you strap in once the car is moving.
I also just want to add that I’m glad that both Tom and his wife Meredith are safe and well. In the 90’s, I worked for her and she is a very sweet woman. I know that both she and Tom probably feel devastated that someone died in that accident.
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I also just want to add that I’m glad that both Tom and his wife Meredith are safe and well. In the 90’s, I worked for her and she is a very sweet woman. I know that both she and Tom probably feel devastated that someone died in that accident.
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