A 58-year-old New York children’s hospital medic has been killed falling from a moving house trailer when the wind blew the door open on a highway at the weekend, authorities said.
Monika Woroniecka, from Stony Brook, and her family were driving on State Route 12E in the town of Brownville, Jefferson County, on Saturday afternoon when the freak accident happened, according to New York State Police.
Woroniecka, who worked in Stony Brook Medicine’s paediatric allergy and immunology department, had decided to spend the last 20 minutes of the journey in the trailer with other family members when the door was blown open.
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Her husband was driving the car towing the house trailer at the time.
Witnesses driving behind the trailer told police they saw the passenger side door of the Airstream open and Woroniecka’s arm hanging on it after a strong wind.
It was not clear if she was trying to close the door.
The doctor was thrown from the Airstream and hit her head on the shoulder of the roadway.
She died of her injuries at hospital as the one that employed her was left to mourn her.
“Stony Brook Medicine is deeply saddened to learn of the tragic loss of one of our esteemed colleagues over the weekend, Dr Monika Woroniecka, a physician at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital,” the hospital said.
“Our thoughts are with her family, friends and colleagues affected by this heartbreaking event.”
It wasn’t clear who else was in the house trailer with Woroniecka at the time she fell.
