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Tom Brokaw unhurt in NY highway wreck that kills 1

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2009 file photo, Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith arrive to the second annual Stand Up For Heroes: A Benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation in New York. The Brokaws say they were unhurt, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in a three-car accident on a New York City highway that killed one woman. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

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FILE - In this June 15, 2008, file photo, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw speaks with the media outside NBC Studios in Washington. Brokaw and his wife say they were involved in a three-car accident on a New York City highway that killed one woman. Both were unhurt.(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)

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In this Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 image made from video, emergency personnel stand at the overturned SUV driven by an unidentified woman who was killed in the accident in New York. Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife said they escaped injury in the three-car accident on the highway that killed the woman and injured a mail truck driver. (AP Photo/WABC-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT

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The Associated Press Updated 11:26 PM Friday, December 4, 2009

NEW YORK — Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife said they escaped injury in a three-car accident on a New York City highway that killed a 30-year-old woman and injured a mail truck driver Friday afternoon.

The accident happened about 1 p.m. as Brokaw was driving in the left lane of the northbound Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx.

Police and the Brokaws said a 1998 Ford Expedition swerved to avoid a spool of cable bouncing in the far right lane, which caused the driver of the SUV to lose control.

The Expedition overturned and then collided with the mail truck, police said. Suejas Estrada of the Bronx was thrown from the Expedition and killed. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Brokaws said the out-of-control Expedition forced the mail truck into the couple's lane. The truck collided with Brokaw's vehicle. Police said the mail truck's 54-year-old driver was taken to Westchester Medical Center with bumps and bruises. He was in stable condition Friday.

Brokaw, 69, and his wife, Meredith, said in a statement they were "greatly saddened by this loss of life." Brokaw didn't say in his statement where the couple was headed at the time.

The New York Police Department declined to confirm that Brokaw was involved in the accident. Police say they're investigating the accident.

Brokaw retired as NBC anchor in 2004 and was succeeded by Brian Williams. He has made frequent appearances on the network, filling in as anchor of the network's "Meet the Press" for months after Tim Russert's death in 2008.

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December 05, 2009 04:20 AM EST

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