NEW YORK— Tragedy struck last weekend when a doctor from Long Island, New York reportedly fell out of a moving trailer and was killed during a family trip to upstate New York to see Monday’s solar eclipse.

According to a report from the Associated Press (AP), New York State Police issued a release stating that the 58-year-old woman, Dr Monika Woroniecka, was riding in a 2024 Airstream trailer along with family members on Saturday for the final 20 minutes of their trip to see the eclipse.

Woroniecka’s husband, Robert Woroniecki, was driving the pickup truck that was hauling the trailer.

However, the tragic incident occurred when the door of the trailer was blown open by the wind while the family was travelling through the town of Brownville and the doctor was thrown from the moving vehicle, the police revealed.

It is reported that Woroniecka hit her head on the shoulder of the road, and was taken to hospital where she died.

Woroniecka was a paediatrician at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital who specialised in immunology.

It is against state law to ride in a “house coach trailer” such as the family’s Airstream while it is hitched to a vehicle travelling on the road, AP said.