{"id":62063,"date":"2025-08-12T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62063\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:08:11","slug":"woman-in-her-30s-is-killed-by-falling-branch-in-park-while-walking-with-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62063\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in her 30s is killed by falling branch in park &#8216;while walking with child&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-3481\/katherine-lawton.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KATHERINE LAWTON, NEWS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  12:14 EDT, 12 August 2025   |  Updated:  12:36 EDT, 12 August 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A young woman has died after being hit by a falling branch in a park while walking with a child, it is understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The incident happened near the Buncer Lane entrance of\u00a0Blackburn&#8217;s Witton Country Park,\u00a0Lancashire, just after 8.30pm last night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The woman was reportedly walking with a child when the tragedy took place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Emergency services rushed to the scene and found the woman, in her 30s, unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the scene shortly afterwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Blackburn with Darwen Council, which owns the 480-acre park, felled the beech tree from which the branch fell after the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The woman came from Blackburn as family members arrived at the scene shortly after her death, it is understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A council statement said: &#8216;Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is deeply saddened to confirm that a member of the public has tragically died following an incident in Witton Park yesterday, when a large tree branch fell.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b56d9d2491094550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101151479-14993853-image-a-1_1755015770224.jpg\" height=\"381\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A woman died after being hit by a tree branch\u00a0near the Buncer Lane entrance (pictured) of Blackburn's Witton Country Park\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A woman died after being hit by a tree branch\u00a0near the Buncer Lane entrance (pictured) of Blackburn&#8217;s Witton Country Park<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-836d9f490a49a966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101151473-14993853-image-a-2_1755015774188.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The woman was reportedly walking with a child at the Lancashire park (pictured) when the tragedy happened\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The woman was reportedly walking with a child at the Lancashire park (pictured) when the tragedy happened\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A police spokesman said: &#8216;We were called to Witton Park, Preston Old Road, Blackburn, at 8.33pm on August 11 following reports a woman had been struck by a falling tree branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Emergency services attended and found the woman unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Despite the best efforts of the emergency services, she was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Her death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for HM Coroner in due course.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Woman in her 30s is killed by falling branch in park &#8216;while walking with child&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By KATHERINE LAWTON, NEWS REPORTER Published: 12:14 EDT, 12 August 2025 | Updated: 12:36 EDT, 12 August 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-62063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}