] A tree fell on a car during a storm Tuesday, killing a ] father, mother and their older daughter in a shopping ] center parking lot, authorities said. ] ] A second daughter was cut from the wreckage and flown to ] Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Firefighters spent ] 40 minutes sawing through the tree and then had to cut ] the crushed car apart to free the crying 18-month-old. This is just sad. Another case of in the wrong place and exactly the wrong time. It goes on to say how the tree was "4-foot-thick tree splintered about 15 feet up its trunk". Charlotte Observer | 07/30/2003 | Falling tree kills parents, child |