Tkinter crashing no traceback

from threading import Thread
from time import sleep
import tkinter as tk

def function(root):
    # Make sure that the root is destroyed from the main thread
    sleep(2)

root = tk.Tk()

# Start a new thread and pass in the `root`
thread = Thread(target=function, args=(root, ), daemon=True)
thread.start()

# Make sure we are inside the other function
sleep(1)

root.destroy()
# If for some reason we loose access to the root object
# before the other thread...
del root

# Make sure the function finished
sleep(3)