Tom Brokaw & wife involved in fatal accident

Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith are unhurt after being involved this afternoon in a fatal accident in New York City.

Media reports indicate that the Brokaws were in one of three vehicles involved in a crash that took the life of a woman driving an SUV that was knocked over an embankment and ended up on some railway tracks.

The third vehicle involved was a U.S. Postal Service truck.

Brokaw issued the following statement tonight:

"Tom and Meredith Brokaw, at around 1 p.m. today, were in a three-vehicle accident on the Bruckner Expressway.

The Brokaws were in the far left lane when they noticed a spool of cable bouncing along the far right lane.

Just then, a green SUV in the right lane came up fast and tried to avoid the cable.

The driver lost control of her vehicle and slid into the middle lane, forcing a mail truck into the Brokaw lane of traffic.

As the mail truck careened into the Brokaw lane, Tom hit the brakes hard and skidded along the median.

When the mail truck catapulted the median the Brokaw vehicle slid into it.

Neither Tom nor Meredith were injured but tragically the driver of the SUV was thrown from her vehicle and killed.

Tom and Meredith are greatly saddened by this loss of life."

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