![]() But you can’t tell – maybe she was bleeding internally, or the pole was holding in the blood,” he added. She looked like she was in shock,” he said. Retired firefighter Bob Bennett, who lives in the area, rushed over. I grabbed the pole and she said, ‘No,'” he said. “I tried to help, but I couldn’t pull the iron out. Homeowner Floyd Lalgie was sitting on his back porch when he heard a “boom,” looked up and saw Chandler-Torres impaled on his fence. The long horizontal metal pole on top of the fence crashed through her windshield, speared its way through her left shoulder just below the collarbone and continued on through the back of the driver’s seat into the passenger seat behind her, witnesses said. The collision sent her car careening onto the sidewalk, where it hit a brick wall, continued down the block and smashed into a low chain-link fence at East 49th Street. Her minivan, a Toyota Sienna, was struck by a Subaru Outback coming in the opposite direction on Avenue J as she crossed Utica Avenue in Flatbush. “It missed her heart, her spine, her head,” he said incredulously.Ĭhandler-Torres, 35, a mom of three children and stepmother to three of her husband’s kids, was heading to a routine doctor’s appointment when the horror began at 9:40 a.m. ![]() “When I was told that thing was lodged in her, I freaked out. “It’s a miracle,” said her shaken husband, Anthony Torres, of Jamaica, Queens. A woman – impaled on a two-inch-thick metal fence pole in a horrific auto accident in Brooklyn yesterday – came out of five hours of surgery alive and expected to survive.Īt least six feet of the 15-foot-long pole ripped through Sherland Chandler-Torres’ left shoulder – missing her heart by inches.
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