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Tom Brokaw In 3 Way Accident With Mail Truck & SUV – Video

December 4th, 2009 |

Author: Truck360 Staff

Tom Brokaw

NEW YORK - According to MSNBC Tom Brokaw and his wife were involved in a three-car accident on a New York City highway that killed one woman. Neither Brokaw nor his wife were injured, but the out of control SUV driver who caused the accident was killed.

The accident happened Friday afternoon on the Bruckner Expressway. Brokaw says he was driving in the highway’s left lane when he saw a spool of cable bouncing along the far right lane. Brokaw said he saw a green SUV coming up in the right lane that went out of control.

Brokaw and police say the SUV driver, an unidentified woman, slid into the middle lane, forcing a mail truck in front of Brokaw’s car. Brokaw says his car slid into the median and collided with the mail truck.

Police say the SUV driver was thrown from the vehicle, off the highway and down onto train tracks below and killed. The 69-year-old Brokaw and his wife, Meredith, were not injured.

The postal service truck driver, 54, was injured in the accident and was taken to Westchester Medical

A statement from Brokaw said he and his wife “are greatly saddened by this loss of life.

Tom Brokaw involved in 3 way accident with postal truck & SUV on Bruckner Expressway; Driver of SUV, a 28 year old woman, was killed failing 70 feet to the train tracks below

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