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Md. man dies after wind-downed tree lands on car in DC

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WASHINGTON — The driver of car that was crushed by a wind-downed tree during last Friday’s wind storm has died.

Fifty-year-old Paul Agbo, of Maryland, was traveling through a Northwest D.C. neighborhood when a tree landed on his car. Police say he died Wednesday.

The tree fell in the 2500 block of 44th Street Northwest around 3:50 p.m., and it appeared that the car had been moving when the tree fell, said Vito Maggiolo, a D.C. police spokesman said.

“It partially crushed the car,” he said.

Agbo was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Scattered showers and humid weather continues for the DC region on Sunday

While a flood watch for the region has been lifted on Saturday evening, humid temperatures and scattered showers will persist overnight and into Sunday. WTOP Meteorologist Mike Stinneford said that the potential for heavy showers will wind down overnight, but Sunday will remain unsettled, with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs will be in the 80s.
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