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Massive tree crashes onto car, trapping couple

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    Oregon emergency workers say it's 'amazing' anyone survived

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And the man has a broken shoulder and amazingly his wife wasn't hurt crews have removed the tree tonight giving us a better look at the damage it did to the car they were -- Best reckon.

-- -- Keeps government Marmara -- thank you Bernie -- how -- is thankful his daughter and her husband weren't killed.

The couple had just finished parking in the cul-de-sac outside his house.

Suddenly this huge fir tree in front of them snapped -- at the base and came crashing down.

The sound shocked the neighborhood I was a T and TV.

Upstairs and I guess I just heard the noise and didn't pay too much attention to that just.

-- something going on outside -- -- came down on -- excitement.

Until the -- -- -- members in the house rushed outside and called 911.

Firefighters were able to squeeze the husband and wife through this small opening in the passenger side window.

Ben Howland says they were shaken up but they seemed fine that would make him around the garden out every spare me your mirror group.

Workers spent the evening chopping the tree up and hauling it away.

Considering the size of the trees and the damage it did to the car rescuers say it's amazing the couples survive.

They must have had a bright light shining down on because if you look at the passenger.

Compartment especially the driver's compartment.

There's about a space of about two loaves of bread in there -- how the husband survived is just remarkable right now.

Tonight investigators aren't sure what caused the tree to fall no one in the area reported any big wind gusts when it happened.

Investigators do believe though that all this rain we've been getting and the -- soil likely played a role.

Reporting in can be tight -- the 10 o'clock news.

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