{"id":58753,"date":"2015-11-30T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=58753"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:24:24","slug":"mother-survives-crash-but-is-killed-moments-later-after-collecting-her-purse-from-wreckage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/mother-survives-crash-but-is-killed-moments-later-after-collecting-her-purse-from-wreckage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Survives Crash But Is Killed Moments Later After Collecting Her Purse From Wreckage"},"content":{"rendered":"
A 25-year-old mother who survived a car crash on Sunday morning has died after she went back to the vehicle to collect her purse, police have reported.<\/p>\n
Brittany Leith, a mother of a three-year-old girl, was left uninjured after her Nissan hit the center and flipped over onto its roof on Long Island’s southern State Parkway.<\/p>\n
After she clambered out of the wreckage through a window, she returned back to the car to collect her belongings.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n As she began to walk back to her vehicle, she was hit and instantly killed by another car on the highway.<\/p>\n According to the New York Post<\/a>, a police car which arrived minutes later was also struck by a passing car and a state trooper was taken to hospital to be treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n Leith worked at a beauty salon in North Babylon as she worked towards getting a beauty license.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Her 73-year-old grandmother Claire Hansen told Newsday <\/a>she doesn’t know how they will break the news to Leith’s daughter.<\/p>\n ‘We have to tell this little baby, this little doll,’ Hansen said. ‘How do we tell this little girl? . . . She keeps saying, “Where’s Mommy? Where’s Mommy?” It’s not supposed to happen this way.’<\/p>\n The road remained closed until 11.30am.<\/p>\n Anyone with information is asked to contact Troop L. Headquarters at 631-756-3300.<\/p>\n