Former tv presenter has narrow escape as tree crashes down

Photo: Liesbeth van der Raaij
A tree on cars in another part of town. Photo: Liesbeth van der Raay

Former television presenter Ellemieke Vermolen had a narrow escape during Friday afternoon’s storm when a tree almost hit her car as she was driving through a street in the south of Amsterdam.

Vermolen recognised her car in the video and urged people to stay home and be careful.  ‘I just had a tree on my car,’ she said, next to a photo of the damage. ‘I had so much luck that it hit the back.’

Three people were killed in the Amsterdam region and around 5pm, police issued an NL-Alert, warning everyone to stay home because of the ‘extreme weather conditions’.

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