A young woman has died after being hit by a falling branch in a park while walking with a child, it is understood.
The incident happened near the Buncer Lane entrance of Blackburn’s Witton Country Park, Lancashire, just after 8.30pm on Monday.
The woman was understood walking with a child when the tragedy took place, the Lancashire Telegraph reports.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and found the woman, in her 30s, unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the scene shortly afterwards.
Blackburn with Darwen Council, which owns the 480-acre park, felled the beech tree from which the branch fell after the incident.
The woman came from Blackburn as family members arrived at the scene shortly after her death, it is understood.
A council statement said: ‘Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is deeply saddened to confirm that a member of the public has tragically died following an incident in Witton Park yesterday, when a large tree branch fell.’
A woman died after being hit by a tree branch near the Buncer Lane entrance (pictured) of Blackburn’s Witton Country Park
The woman was reportedly walking with a child at the Lancashire park (pictured) when the tragedy happened
A police spokesman said: ‘We were called to Witton Park, Preston Old Road, Blackburn, at 8.33pm on August 11 following reports a woman had been struck by a falling tree branch.
‘Emergency services attended and found the woman unresponsive.
‘Despite the best efforts of the emergency services, she was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.
‘Her death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for HM Coroner in due course.’
