An American pediatrician from New York State, who was traveling with her family in their brand new camping trailer to watch the solar eclipse, reportedly died on Saturday after being thrown from the vehicle in front of her daughter.
“They had just bought the caravan two months earlier (…) Oh my God, I can’t believe it! They were planning trips. They were planning to go to their daughter’s wedding in Arizona (this year),” the family’s Long Island neighbor, Maria, lamented to the “New York Post” on Monday.
On Saturday, Dr. Monika Woroniecka, 58, was traveling with her partner Robert and one of her three daughters aboard the family pickup, to which the new Airstream-type caravan was attached, to go to Cape Vincent to be at the front row seats to the eclipse.
The trio then stopped at a gas station for an ice cream break, before the two women decided to get back into the caravan for the remaining 20 minutes of the journey to the Airbnb, according to the American media.
Except that as soon as she arrived on the highway, near Watertown, the door of the caravan suddenly opened, ejecting the fifty-year-old, still clinging to the handle, from the moving vehicle, witnesses told the police. ‘State.
“According to (her daughter) Helena’s accounts, she was lying on the bed in the back of the camper van. Her mother was trying to secure the passenger side door of the camper and she was then ejected,” Sergeant Jack Keller told the NYPost.
In her fall, the pediatrician hit her head and shoulder violently. She was reportedly transported to a Samaritan hospital center, where she was pronounced dead.
In New York State, it is illegal to travel in a motor home while it is attached to another moving vehicle, the American media said.
“Poor Robert, poor children. Really nice family, good neighbors – the best,” continued Maria, with tears in her eyes.
The victim, a pediatrician who worked for Stony Brook Medicine since the early 2000s, specialized in allergies and immunology.
