Impact And Short Fall Costs Infants Life

Falling Branch Kills Baby

June 27 2010

Six month old Gianna Ricciutti from Union City, N.J was killed on Saturday, after a large branch fell from a tree outside the Central Park Zoo, striking her and injuring her mother. Karla Ricciutti was holding her infant outside of the famous New York attraction, when the huge limb somehow separated itself from a tree 30 feet over their heads, and landed on them. The impact knocked the 33-year old women to the ground and caused her infant daughter to fall out of her arms, also landing on the hard pavement.

After being rushed to New York Presbyterian hospital, the baby was pronounced dead, while her mother remains in critical condition as a result of the accident.

Witnesses report the entire incident happened so quickly, there wasn’t enough time for anybody to react. The father, Mike Ricciutti was snapping photographs at the time and was visibly upset and too shaken up to respond to questions about either his wife or daughter.

This is not the first fatality involving a falling limb in this area. In February of this year, Elmaz Oyra was struck in the head by a snow covered branch while strolling along Literary Walk, killing him almost instantly.

Source

http://www.overthelimit.info/curiosity/2010/06/27/falling-branch-kills-baby/