A man in his 20s has been killed in north London when a tree fell on his car, according to the Metropolitan Police. High winds brought down the tree onto the man's vehicle at around 12.40pm on Sunday. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene in Mill Hill, close to Finchley Golf Club. The tree is said to have fallen on top of a moving car at the junction of Dollis Road and Abercorn Road. Read more: Two killed by falling trees as Storm Boelo continues to batter UK leaving over 160,000 homes without power Read more: 'France must find greatness again': Far-right Marine Le Pen calls out Macron at campaign speech The road remains closed on Sunday evening.
The man's next of kin have been notified. Chief inspector Guy Ellwood, from the Met’s north-west command unit, said: “This is a deeply tragic incident and our thoughts are with the loved ones of the young man who lost his life. “We will now work with the local authority and coroner to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.” A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “We were called at 12.29pm on Sunday, October 25, to reports of an incident near Abercorn Road.
“We sent resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, incident response officers and paramedics from our hazardous area response team. We also dispatched a trauma team from London’s Air Ambulance. “Very sadly, despite the best efforts of our crews, a man was pronounced dead at the scene.”
LBC reports that a man in his 20s was killed when a tree fell on his car in Mill Hill, north London, during Storm Boelo, and it names the police and ambulance sources plainly. Its headline calls him the 'second man' killed 'in London', but the body never mentions the earlier death. Other outlets place that death in Dumfries and Galloway, so a reader is led to believe two men died in London. The article also gives a time for the tree falling that comes after the ambulance service says it was called.
Headline goes beyond the article
Minor
“Second man crushed to death by falling tree in London”
Why this matters
The words "Second man" sit next to "in London", so the headline counts this death as the second of its kind in London. The body never mentions any earlier death.
The impression it gives
A reader believes two men have now been killed by falling trees in London during Storm Boelo.
The context
The first death reported that day was near Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This was the storm's second death across the UK, not London's second. The body says nothing of the first death or where it happened.
In its own voice LBC puts the tree falling at "around 12.40pm".
The impression it gives
A reader takes 12.40pm as the time the tree came down.
The context
The ambulance service spokeswoman quoted in the same article says crews were called at 12.29pm, eleven minutes before the time LBC gives for the tree falling. The article does not reconcile the two times.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“We were called at 12.29pm on Sunday”