An Indiana man was tragically killed when a tree suddenly fell on him as he was celebrating his 77th birthday with his wife – whom he had pushed out of harm’s way mere moments before his death.
Doug Pendleton and his wife, Linda, were visiting a car show and the Studebaker National Museum, a car museum in South Bend, Indiana, when a tree suddenly fell on him, killing him instantly. The tree collapsed near a historic restaurant and toward the couple. Its unclear what caused the large tree to collapse into the road.
“Doug, obviously out of the corner of his eyes, saw the tree coming over and told me to run, (and) according to a witness, pushed me out of the way,” his wife, Linda, told 13News…