A Virginia grandmother was reportedly killed when a tire crashed through the windshield of a SUV she and her family were traveling in as they headed to a theme park.
Tammy Parsons, 53, was with her fiancé, two children and two grandchildren in a Ford Explorer on Interstate 64 in York County Sunday, when a tire came off a Jeep traveling in the opposite direction and hit the driver’s side of the SUV, according to WAVY-TV.
Parsons, of Williamsburg, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
No one else was hurt in the crash.
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A 53-year-old Virginia woman was killed Sunday when a tire smashed through the window of her vehicle. (Virginia State Police )
“She was 100% committed to her kids, all the way, there was nothing, nothing she wouldn’t do,” her fiancé Joseph Palumbo told WTVR-TV. “She is by far the best, best woman I’ve ever met in my life … I lost a soulmate.”
He said he had been with Parsons for more than 10 years.
Charges could be forthcoming, WTVR reported.
Neither alcohol nor speeding was considered a factor in the crash, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
Palumbo said Parsons’ daughter Skyler saved the rest of the family from getting hurt in the crash.
“When that tire hit, her second-oldest daughter jumped up over her mom to help me slam that car into the guardrail, so we would stop and not crash and possibly get killed,” he told WRIC-TV. “That takes pure strength in my eyes. And you know what? That comes from their mom.”
Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Va. (Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images/File/Fox News)
The family had reportedly been driving to Busch Gardens’ Howl-O-Scream event in Williamsburg.
Palumbo said he was surprised this week to receive a Halloween decoration he didn’t know Parsons had ordered before her death.
“I didn’t know it was coming,” he told WVEC-TV. “I’m not going to lie. It brought a little tear.”
He added, “This is how I’m going to look at it. [She] gave her life to save everybody that was in that car. We all walked away that day because of her.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the Virginia State Police.
