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SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) – An eight-year-old girl who was thrown out of a pickup truck in a car accident in Woodlands last month woke up on Tuesday (Nov. 3) after 11 days in a coma.
Her father, Eric Tan, 45, told The New Paper Tuesday night that Lovelynn regained consciousness around 4 p.m.
“She can’t speak or respond yet. She just woke up and can only move the left side of her body,” he said in Mandarin.
Earlier that day, around 7:30 a.m., Tan had posted an update on social media about his daughter’s condition.
He said the inflammation in his brain had subsided and the blood clots were gradually dissolving.
But the mobility on the right side of your body would be affected and it is estimated that it will take longer to recover.
“You will be asked to remain in the ICU (intensive care unit) for further observation,” he wrote.
Lovelynn is being held at KK Children’s and Women’s Hospital, where Mr. Tan and his wife have been on vigil.
She was one of four people injured in the accident involving a pickup truck driven by her uncle and a red Audi car on 12 Woodlands Avenue, just after 8 p.m. on October 23.
He had a head injury, broke both legs, and needed emergency surgery.
Also in the van were his six-year-old sister Lovelle and two cousins, a 23-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man, who needed surgery for a ruptured spleen.
A 32-year-old male passenger in the Audi was also taken to hospital.
Lovelle was unharmed and has stayed with her aunt. Mr. Tan’s 56-year-old brother-in-law was arrested for dangerous driving and causing injury.
Police are investigating the case.
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