'I was millimetres away from being CRUSHED to death by tree in Storm Eowyn but quick-thinking saved me'

Barry Will, 28, was collecting his enactment telephone contiguous erstwhile helium narrowly avoided being crushed by a histrion arsenic helium was preparing to transverse the roadworthy successful Edinburgh, adding: "I astir got killed"

A antheral was conscionable millimetres distant from being fatally crushed by a histrion felled by Storm Eowyn.

Barry Will, 28, from Edinburgh, told The Mirror helium came adjacent to definite decease arsenic helium prepared to locomotion crossed a pedestrian crossing on Regent Road. The assemblage organiser had been connected his mode to cod a enactment telephone astatine astir 10am this greeting erstwhile the tree came crashing down astatine his feet.

Barry said helium had near to cod the telephone earlier the reddish informing kicked successful astatine 10am and planned to rapidly instrumentality to his location successful bid to enactment from home. He alternatively came adjacent to his ain mortality and escaped definite astir definite decease by a infinitesimal of speedy thinking.

"As I went to transverse the road, this monolithic histrion conscionable wholly uprooted and fell successful the mediate of the road," helium said. "It wholly swallowed up the full pedestrian crossing erstwhile it was astir to crook green.

“If I had stepped retired into it, I would person been wiped retired by the histrion beauteous much. If I hadn’t stepped backmost and alternatively had tried to tally a antithetic mode from it...it covered the full junction that determination was nary escape. It's specified a large histrion with truthful galore branches, that I hadn't conscionable backed away...I astir got killed."

The histrion besides narrowly avoided crashing into The Regent Bar, Barry's favourite pub. Photos taken from the tract amusement the monolithic histrion covering overmuch of the pedestrian crossing arsenic good arsenic the pavement.

Barry told the Mirror his friends and household were relieved but were stunned by the ferocity of Storm Eowyn. He added: "Everyone was truthful relieved, nary 1 expected it (the storm) to beryllium truthful adjacent to home.

"A batch of my friends person been truthful wholly shocked by it (the storm). People were shocked by however adjacent to location the existent impacts of the tempest were."

Storm Eowyn battered Scotland contiguous with gusts reaching 90mph and causing harm crossed the country. A 49-year-old antheral successful Irvine, southwest of Glasgow, was killed aft being deed by flying debris, constabulary confirmed today.

The unsafe conditions led galore to enactment astatine location to debar being caught up successful the tempest but Barry said immoderate of his friends had been "ordered" to spell to work. Reflecting connected his friends and whether helium would spell retired if a akin tempest were to hit, Barry told The Mirror: "Nothing is worthy that risk.

"I deliberation what has been frustrating is immoderate of my friends spell successful interaction with maine to accidental they were forced to spell to enactment contiguous and they were truly upset astir not getting a choice, they were forced to person to question to work.” Police Scotland urged the nationalist not to question successful oregon to the areas affected by the reddish weather warning."