‘She was waiting for the bus’: Quebec woman dies after being hit by falling tree branch
Global News
Canadian legal experts point out that generally speaking, property owners are responsible for falling trees and branches. But not every case in the same.
Talya Pardo is trying to hold on to the good memories of her friend Ljubica Milicevic, and the fact that her friend died on Mother’s Day doesn’t make it any easier.
“She was really a very special friend for me, like a second mother,” she told Global News.
Milicevic, 76, was struck in the upper body by a tree branch just before 1 p.m. Saturday, according to Montreal police, on Queen Mary Road at the corner of Macdonald Avenue in Côte Saint-Luc.
“She was waiting for the bus,” Pardo explained. “She had texted me not even an hour before.”
Milicevic passed away from her injuries the following day.
Her daughter Isadora Nolan was too distraught to give an on-camera interview, but wrote to Global News saying that her mother “was a few weeks of completing her last novel. She published two novellas and a children’s book. This was her first novel, but her passion was for poetry.”
Pardo worked with Milicevic at the Solomon Schecter Academy library.
“She was a writer, she was a painter, she was always busy with something creative,” she recalled.
