Pediatrician Monika Woroniecka was flung onto the highway trying to close her trailer's door – her daughter said a fatal flaw in design could have contributed to her death.
The daughter of a Long Island pediatrician who was fatally flung from an Airstream over the weekend said a 'significant oversight' in the trailer's design contributed to the tragic accident. Horrified motorists saw Dr. Monika Woroniecka, 58, cling for dear life to the door handle of the family's trailer before she lost her grip and struck her head on the shoulder of State Route 12E in Watertown on Saturday, New York State Police said in a release.
Woroniecka's daughter Helena told the New York Post that her mother loved the Airstream, giving it a nickname and even sleeping inside while it was parked in the driveway. But a fatal flaw in its design played a part in her mother's unthinkable death, she posited: 'The doors on the Airstream open the opposite way that you would expect.
She told the outlet both her parents were born in Poland in 1965 and moved to the U.S. in 1992. Woroniecka's native language was Polish, according to her bio at Stony Brook Medicine where she worked, which ' Polish-speaking families from far distances.' 'She was the most loving, generous, and golden-hearted person I’ve ever known,' Helena said of her mother, the Post reported.
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