Elderly woman dies after falling off Denny sign after picking up husband from hospice

On Thursday, a 72-year-old woman died in a freak accident when a Denny’s sign collapsed on top of her car and crushed her.

A woman had just picked up her husband from the hospice when the disaster struck. When the sign crashed to the ground due to strong winds gusting at least 40 mph, Lillian May Curtis was in the back seat of the car along with daughter Mary Graham and her husband Lloyd Eugene Curtis, both of whom survived. crash.

Lillian Mae Curtis was also able to walk away unscathed. According to her family, she was sent to the University of Louisville Hospital, the same facility from which she had just taken her husband home, but doctors there deemed her “inoperable” due to her “catastrophic head injury.”

According to her granddaughter Mary Howard, who spoke to the local ABC partner network station, “Doctors said it happened all at once and that there was no way her body could feel the agony.”

Graham collapsed and suffered fractures of five ribs in addition to a concussion, and Lloyd Curtis, who had only three months to live, was readmitted to the hospital. The marriage of an elderly couple celebrated a half-century anniversary.

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