GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — The lone survivor of a gruesome accident in Gaston County, which claimed the lives of two people, is out of the hospital.
Eyewitness News was there moments after storms caused a tree to plow into the SUV Tiffany Parham and her family were riding in Friday night around 7:00 p.m.
Slideshow: Images of the accident that killed two people
Her father Reginald Parham and mother Arlene Parham died in the accident. She escaped with minor injuries. Saturday, Reginald's older sister Michele told Eyewitness News that her family was on the way to the laundromat just moments before the tree crashed.
Reginald said goodbye to him as he left the house. "He said make sure you eat something and he left. I heard the rain. I closed the windows," she said. That very storm caused the massive tree to plow into the family's Chevy Equinox on Stagecoach Road.
It took rescue workers 20-minute to free the family from the SUV. Arlene died on scene and Reginald died later at Gaston Memorial Hospital. Tiffany also went to the hospital, but was released. "It's like a dream," said Michele. "I've gone to the laundromat. I've seen the streets."
Michele told Eyewitness News that Tiffany didn't remember the accident at all.
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