A tragic incident has happened in Babylon as a woman died few minutes after she walked out unharmed from a most ghastly accident.
The tumbled car
A young woman identified as Brittany Leith, 25, of North Babylon whose car flipped over a Long Island highway on Sunday miraculously came out of the wreckage unharmed but died some minutes later as she ran back to the car to retrieve some of her belongings.
As she was making her way to her ruined car in the left lane, a passing vehicle fatally struck her.
People at the scene of the accident had begged her not to go back but she refused. The accident happend while she was traveling west on the Southern State Parkway near Exit 36 at about 3:54 a.m, police said. A state police car was affected as it was struck from behind by another passing vehicle.
Anna Leith, Brittany’s distraught grandmother, said she now has to face the difficult task of telling the woman’s young daughter, Zoey, that her mom isn’t coming home.
“She has a 3-year-old daughter . . . who doesn’t have a mother anymore,” said Anna Leith, 75.
“She was the best mother in the world. She loved Zoey more than anything,” she added.
The grandmother said Brittany and Zoey had been living with her since the young mom got divorced. Brittany was on her way home from a friend’s home when she was killed, the grandmother said. Anna Leith says she thinks the people who were on the scene with Brittany should have done more to keep her from running back into traffic.
“I was told someone was there to help her out of the car, but she could have hit her head and been out of it,” the grandmother said.
“Somebody should have held on to her and not let her run back into the street.
“This should not have happened,” she added.
See video of the scene of the fatal accident: