The "A Truly Sad Newspaper Story"

It was an ordinary day.  Sharing with my wife a story about our old neighborhood of Grandview Heights where we lived for many years.  We moved to Grandview Heights a few years after we had married and found a home in the same block where my parents lived at the time.  We stayed there until our children had all graduated from Manheim Township High School where I taught high school Industrial Arts.  Our next move was to another area of Manheim Township to a house that looked like a "beach house".  Just loved the place and spent quite a few years at that location until it became too much to handle in my senior years. We recently moved to Woodcrest Villa, a retirement community on the west side of Lancaster.  Well, today I happened upon a story that told about a death in Grandview Heights, close to our old house.  Seems a person had died after a tree fell on their car they were riding in at the time.  Emergency crews were dispatched to the 600 block of McGrann Boulevard around 12:30 p.m. where a person inside the crushed car was pronounced dead.  The name of the victim had not been released.  Grandview is a beautiful neighborhood with many old tree-covered roads.  Often wondered what would happen if a few of the trees might topple over due to the size of them.  Well, I found out after reading the newspaper story.  Seems that the coroner's office will be conducting a computerized tomography scan, which aids in detecting internal injuries, instead of having to do an autopsy.  I had never heard of such a thing, but it must save both time and give a more detailed look at injuries that may have been sustained in an accident.  I often wondered why someone couldn't come up with a better way to tell how death had occurred in an accident.  I'm sure that Dr. Diamantoni, the Lancaster County Coroner and a former student of mine at Manheim Township High School, will appreciate new and hopefully more precise ways to detect internal reasons for death.  So sorry for the accident that caused the death of the person.  It was reported in the same newspaper story that many other parts of Lancaster were closed off due to the extremely high winds which were causing power outages and perhaps downing trees.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.