Truck with 20 tons of gravel crushed pregnant woman to death
Pregnant mother crushed to death by truck carrying 20 tons of gravel in freak accident witnessed by her 4-year-old daughter
Lindsey Combs, 32, was crushed to death in her Martinez, California, driveway
Hairstylist and expectant mother was moving her car when a big rig laden with gravel tipped over
Combs' 4-year-old daughter was outside and witnessed the accident
Combs was two months pregnant with second baby and was supposed to have first ultrasound scan this week
Tragic mom: Lindsey Combs, 32, was crushed to death inside her car when a truck laden with gravel flipped over in her Martinez, California, driveway
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A pregnant hairstylist from California was killed Monday afternoon when a big rig carrying gravel flipped over onto her car, crushing her to death in front of her young daughter.
Lindsey Combs, 32, from Martinez, was moving her car at the request of a construction crew working near the corner of Shell Avenue and Pine Street when the gravel on the truck shifted, causing its dump trailer to flip over.
Combs was two months pregnant with her second child and engaged to be married.
According to family members, the woman's 4-year-old daughter ran out of the house and saw her mother's car crushed by gravel. Combs' fiance, Anderson Pamilton, was also in the house at the time.
The devastating incident took place at 1pm outside 820 Shell Avenue when a truck operated by city-contracted JJR construction was bringing a load of gravel to rebuild sidewalks along Shell Avenue.
According to police, one of the workers approached Lindsey Combs in her driveway and asked her to repark her car to make room for a purple truck owned by Gregory Trucking.
The woman complied and was in the process of moving her car when the massive vehicle laden with 20 tons of gravel tipped over and smashed her car.
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Eyewitness Travis Hagerty told ABC 7 News he and two construction workers rushed to Combs' aid and attempted to dig her out by hand, but it was too late.
‘A guy with a backhoe came around and ripped the door off the car with the backhoe after he picked the trailer up. That's when I looked in the car and saw she was smashed and dead,’ Hagerty said.
Full of life: Friends and family said Combs, a hairstylist, was excited about her pregnancy. She is survived by her 4-year-old daughter (pictured)
That is one freaky tragic accident. I feel sad for her 4yr old daughter and family. 
