Sheehan Fallen By Tree

While riding his Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, 58-year-old Robert F.  Sheehan Jr. was killed in Deerfield yesterday morning after a massive weeping willow tree fell on him. Sheehan, a veteran motorcycle enthusiast, husband and father, was riding with two other friends in Deerfield on Mill Village Road when the accident occurred just before 11 a.m. Sheehan was operating the third motorcycle in a line of three when the 3-foot-wide tree fell.  "The tree appeared to be rotten, and the wind took it and him down.  The two other men he was with ran back to him to see if they could help," said officer Don Bates. Rescue crews could not revive Sheehan at the scene. "The second (cyclist) in line heard a crack," Bates said. "He turned around and saw his friend underneath the tree." Sheehan Jr. was taken to Franklin Medical Center in Springfield where he was pronounced dead on arrival.