NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A man sitting on a bench at a Brooklyn playground was critically injured when a tree branch fell on him over the weekend, police said as they work to identify the man.
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The victim was sitting on a bench at the Reinaldo Salgado Playground on Monroe Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 8:20 a.m. Saturday when a branch fell about 40 feet and struck him in the head.
He was transport to Kings County Hospital with a severe head injury. He remained in critical condition on Sunday.
Police are trying to identify the man, as he wasn’t carrying ID at the time.
The “failed limb” came from a London planetree that was last inspected by a city Parks Department forestry expert in August 2020, a Parks spokesperson told the New York Post.
The tree, which was last pruned a month before the inspection, was deemed to be in good condition.
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