A woman in her eighth month of pregnancy was fatally hit by a snowplow in Brooklyn on Thursday morning.
Min Lin, 36, was one of the 21 people killed in a massive snowstorm that hit the East Coast this week.
Miraculously, doctors were able to safely deliver Lin’s baby. The infant remains in critical but stable condition.
According to the NY Daily News:
Lin and her husband, Jin Feng Lin, were putting groceries into their trunk in the snow-swept Fei Long Market parking lot on Eighth Ave. near 63rd St. at about 10:45 a.m. Thursday.
The Bobcat plow, driven by supermarket owner Wu Wu, 42, backed into the expectant mom, who was stepping back, police sources said. It wasn’t clear how fast he was going. Wu was packing snow into an empty parking spot next to Lin’s car in Dyker Heights when the accident happened, police sources said.
Paramedics rushed Lin to Maimonides Medical Center. The Sunset Park woman died at the hospital just before 11:45 a.m.
The driver of the snowplow remained at the scene. Police are investigating the accident. At the hospital, doctors performed an emergency Caesarean section to deliver a 6-pound, 6-ounce baby boy.
The baby went without oxygen for 17 minutes before he was delivered, a complication that could have damaged the baby’s brain and organs, heartbroken family members told DNA info.
Lin’s roommate, Song Qing Huang, spoke to the Daily News about how Lin’s family is coping.
“The family … it’s not real good,” Huang, 37, told the Daily News, adding that the young mom also had a 5-year-old son, Kevin.
Our prayers are with her family during this difficult time.
SOURCE: NY Daily News | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
