- Min Lin, 36, was struck and killed by a compact tractor clearing a parking lot
- Her nearly full-term baby boy was delivered by cesarean section
- New York City's sixth winter storm this season dumped up to 14 inches of snow in areas
- At least 12 deaths have been blamed on the severe weather across the nation
A pregnant woman was killed Thursday after being struck by a
privately owned tractor clearing snow in a parking lot, but her baby boy
was delivered by cesarean section, authorities said.
The nearly full-term boy
-- weighing 6.6 pounds -- was in critical condition at Brooklyn's
Maimonides Medical Center, where his 36-year-old mother was pronounced
dead on arrival after being struck as she was loading groceries into her
car.
The victim was identified
as Min Lin, a Brooklyn resident, police said. Lin arrived at the
hospital within 10 minutes of the accident, and the baby was delivered
in less than a minute, hospital spokeswoman Eileen Tynion said.
Police said the Bobcat
compact tractor equipped with a snowplow was backing up and struck the
woman about 10:40 a.m. in a parking lot in the rear of Fei Long Market.
Her husband was with her.
The 42-year-old operator of the private snowplow was being questioned, police said.
The incident occurred
during New York City's sixth winter storm of the season. The latest
storm was expected to dump up to 14 inches on some parts of the city.
At least 12 deaths have
been blamed on the severe weather across the nation. On Thursday, snow
walloped Washington, Philadelphia and Boston. A band of heavy snowfall
hit parts of Connecticut, with rates of 3 to 6 inches per hour.
The National Weather
Service reported near-blizzard conditions over northern parts of New
York City, northeast New Jersey, the lower Hudson Valley and coastal
Connecticut.
In addition to the
weather-related death in New York, two people were killed in Georgia,
and two died in North Carolina as the storm system moved up the Eastern
Seaboard. At least two people died in weather-related crashes on
Virginia roads.
In Texas, three people
died when an ambulance driver lost control on an icy patch of road
outside of Carlsbad, the state Department of Public Safety said. A
patient, a paramedic and another passenger were pronounced dead at the
scene.
In Mississippi, authorities blamed the storm for two traffic deaths.
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