North Carolina Congressman’s Tree Falls on Postal Service Vehicle, Kills Worker

June 23, 2015

A postal worker is dead after her passing vehicle was crushed by a falling tree owned by a North Carolina congressman.

Multiple media organizations reported the 43-year-old female mail carrier died June 20 when the large tree fell on her U.S. Postal Service vehicle. Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies identified her as Lisa Rudisill Wilkerson of Sherrill’s Ford, N.C.

The tree was at the home of U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry in the town of Denver. McHenry press secretary Jeff Butler said the North Carolina Republican was visiting out-of-state relatives when the incident occurred.

The postal worker was delivering mail when a thunderstorm moved through the area. Power was knocked out temporarily to thousands of electricity customers.

Topics Auto North Carolina

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  • June 24, 2015 at 9:56 am
    Agent says:
    A severe thunderstorm with wind and thousands of customers lost power tends to tell me that mother nature caused this tree to fall.
  • June 23, 2015 at 2:59 pm
    If it was anyone else says:
    It would be pretty much a non-event.
  • June 23, 2015 at 2:57 pm
    Desert Rat says:
    Unless the tree was rotten and Congressman or his landscaper knew it!!

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