Tree Falls, Crashes Into Passing Car In O’Hara Twp.

A 45-year-old man was driving along Saxonburg Boulevard when a cherry tree fell across the road and crashed into his car on Friday afternoon.

O’Hara Township police said the tree smashed through the front windshield of the man’s Dodge Stratus, pinning his legs beneath its dashboard.

The roof needed to be cut off the vehicle, and the jaws of life were required to extract the man, authorities said.

He was flown to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, and his condition is unknown. Officials said he was in severe pain, but alert after being removed from his wrecked car.

Police said the cherry tree needed to be cut into pieces before it could be removed from the road.