Nurse Killed When Tree Fell on Her Car as She Drove to Work in Philadelphia

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Nurse practitioner Maria Camela Lazo-Hannecart died when a tree fell on her car while she was driving to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia to get to work on Oct. 30

Her husband, Pierre Hannecart, recalled having to inform their three kids — ages 3, 7 and 9 — that their mom was dead

"I put them next to each other. I told them, ‘What I’m going to tell you is going to change your life forever.’ They all cried at the same time, and we all hugged each other,” he said

A family in Philadelphia is mourning the loss of a wife and mom of three after her car was struck by a tree that fell as she was driving to work.

Maria Camela Lazo-Hannecart, a 44-year-old nurse practitioner, was driving to work at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on Oct. 30 when the freak accident