At least three people were killed by felled trees overnight Thursday as violent storms ripped through central New Jersey.
A pair of men, aged 25 and 79, were driving through Plainfield when a tree crushed their vehicle, taking numerous power lines down with it sometime between 6 and 7 p.m., officials said.
In North Plainfield, a driver pulled over on Greenbrook Road to ride out the storm and was also killed when a large tree fell on top of her car, according to the city’s mayor.
A woman who had pulled over to ride out the storm in North Plainfield was killed when a tree came down on her car, pictured here. ZUMAPRESS.com
“I saw the tree on the car and I realized, the whole sidewalk had come up,” Michelle Smith told ABC 7. “It was very chaotic, a lot of people were trying to look inside the car,