Longmont Man Dies After Tree Branch Crashes Into Car
DENVER (AP) - A Longmont man was fatally injured when a tree branch snapped off in high winds and smashed through the windshield of his car Saturday.
The State Patrol said James Baker-Jarvis, 61, died at the hospital after the freak accident on Highway 36, about 5 miles north of Boulder. At least one other person was in the car but wasn't injured.
"It's one of those unbelievably unlikely events," said patrol Sgt. Mike Baker. "It sounds like the wind broke it loose and ... he happened to drive under it right as it was falling."
Baker said he didn't know how big the branch was.
High winds buffeted most of the state Saturday, and gusts in the Boulder area reached between 44 and 53 mph at about the time Baker-Jarvis was killed, according to the National Weather Service.
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