The 17-year-old school girl who sustained serious head injuries after she was hit by a car as she crossed Fourth Avenue in Geduld last Wednesday has regained consciousness and is awake.
Fiona LeCorre’s mother Miena van Zyl says her daughter was unresponsive, but opened her eyes on Sunday afternoon and started talking to her.
Fiona is being treated at the Far East Rand Hospital.
Miena says Fiona immediately wanted to know where Neil, her mother’s fiancé, was.
“Fiona knows who she is and that she’s in hospital, but doesn’t know why,” says Miena.
She claims her daughter has facial fractures and a broken collarbone.
“She is still in a lot of pain and cries every time she turns around in her hospital bed,” she says.
The teenager is a Grade 10 learner at Dr WK du Plessis School.
Miena is devastated by what happened to her daughter and the uncertainty of the future.
“I need answers, but don’t know where to begin looking,” she says.
When she saw her child lying in the road she went into a state of panic.
Nirvana Ambulance Services paramedic Anria Ferreira says when they arrived at the scene at 2.50pm, the found the teenager had sustained severe head injuries, a cut to the head and her right eye was swollen and bruised.
EMPD officials Louis Else and Louwtjie du Toit say the driver of a white Toyota bakkie claims Fiona passed a stationary truck and walked into oncoming traffic.
Fiona was transported to the Far East Rand Hospital (FERH) for treatment.
Last Thursday (June 18) she was transported to the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg for a CT scan and will go back for another scan on Wednesday (June 24).
FERH spokesman Hendrik Buda confirms she is in a stable condition.
