Pitt Town death prompts schools to tree cull

By Bianca La Cioppa
Updated September 3 2014 - 9:05am, first published 9:04am
Tragedy: The tree at Pitt Town Public School is removed earlier this year. One of its falling branches killed  Bridget Wright, 8, during her lunch break. Picture: James Brickwood
Tragedy: The tree at Pitt Town Public School is removed earlier this year. One of its falling branches killed Bridget Wright, 8, during her lunch break. Picture: James Brickwood

More than 5000 trees have been chopped down in NSW school grounds following the playground accident in February at Pitt Town Public School in which eight-year-old Bridget Wright was killed by a limb falling from a gum tree.