Two people were seriously hurt yesterday by a falling tree branch in Brooklyn, authorities said.
The enormous limb tumbled about six stories from a London plane tree in the Ingersoll Housing Development in Fort Greene at about 3 p.m., and hit an elderly man and 17-year-old girl in the head, witnesses and officials said.
Sonia Siton, 67, said the branch was so large, “their skulls could have been easily fractured.”
Gladys McMillan, 66, said the man looked as if he was in bad shape: “He was bleeding really badly. The poor man just couldn’t move. He couldn’t talk.”
Another witness, Patricia Wallace, 59, said, “There was blood everywhere.”
McMillian said the crying teen was blood-soaked.
“She just couldn’t react in time,” said that victim’s sister, Sharffee Moore, 34, who added that her sibling, whom she declined to identify, was on her way to visit her grandmother.
“I thought the worst,” Moore said, noting that her sister needed five staples to close a wound on the top of her head.