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A Long Island pediatrician was on her way to watch the solar eclipse with her family when she fell out of the passenger door of the family’s new Airstream in front of her horrified daughter, it has been revealed.
Monika Woroniecka, 58, had just stopped for ice cream at a gas station with her family enroute to their AirBnb in Cape Vincent before she fell to her death.
According to New York State Trooper Sgt. Jack Keller, Woroniecka and her daughter Helena decided to ride the last 20 minutes of their trip in the $130,000 Airstream camper.
While Woroniecka was trying to secure the passenger side of the camper, she was thrown from the Airstream and died in front of her horrified family.
Neighbor Maria Antipas was left distraught outside the Woroniecka Stony Brook, New York, home on Monday over the news of Woroniecka's passing.
‘I can’t believe something like this would happen. They are just a lovely family, good neighbors. She's a nice person,' Antipas said.
Monika Woroniecka (right) was on her way to view the eclipse when she was tossed from an Airstream while on a New York Road. Her husband, Richard, was driving a pickup that was pulling the Airstream, when Woroniecka fell out in front of her family
Dr. Woroniecka was a children's allergy and immunology specialist at Stony Brook Medicine, which she practiced for more than 20 years
While Woroniecka was trying to secure the passenger side of the camper, she got thrown from the $130,000 Airstream
The family was on their way to view the eclipse and had just stopped for ice cream before the tragedy
Her husband Robert Woroniecka, 59, was driving the couple’s 2019 gray Ram pick-up truck west around 3 pm Saturday on Route 12 E in Brownville when the tragedy happened.
Witnesses behind the Airstream claimed they saw the passenger side door of the Airstream open, and Woroniecka's arm hanging on the door after the wind caused the door to swing ajar.
The incident happened in front of her daughter and her boyfriend, police said.
When emergency personnel arrived, she was transported to Samaritan Medical Center where she died.
Police continue to investigate the horrifying incident.
'I haven't dealt a lot with these type of incidents. We are still trying to determine how and why the door opened,' Keller said.
On Monday, no one answered the door at the Woroniecka residence. Antipas, who lives next door to the family, was devastated having no idea it was neighbor and just learned about it when a media outlet told her of the tragedy.
Antipas said they would look after each other’s houses when they travel and said she had a key to their home.
‘They just left the other day,' she recalled. 'They got an Airstream a couple of months ago and
