Teenager’s prom is a real miracle

Published: August 9, 2007 | 6653rd good news item since 2003

HORRIFIC injuries suffered in a car crash did not stop teenager Amy Endean making her school prom.

Amy, of Leigh Sinton, was at risk of losing the sight in her left eye following the crash. She sustained fractures to the eye socket, pelvis, cheek and jaw bones.

The 16-year-old had a six- hour operation, during which her scalp was cut from ear to ear, her face peeled back and her eye socket rebuilt, before her wounds were stapled together with 50 staples.
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Despite her injuries, which caused memory loss and blurred vision, Amy was determined to go to The Chase prom at the Bank House Hotel, Bransford, on Wed-nesday with her sister Laura, 18.

“I didn’t doubt I would go and I haven’t really been self conscious about it,” said Amy.

Dad David described the moment he and his wife Jane received a knock at their door in the early hours of Saturday, June 2.

“They said Amy had been involved in an – as of yet – non-fatal accident,” said the 44-year-old. “When we got to the hospital, she had a massive gash across the top of her head and left eye. She was convulsing and being sick.”

He said his daughter had 40 stitches in her eye before doctors at Worcestershire Royal Hospital reconstructed her socket in the second operation, when a titanium dish was screwed into her face.

Mr Endean said the family thought Amy was at a friend’s house when the crash happened, on the Upton-upon-Severn to Strensham road, but discovered the pair had gone out without permission.

Two of her friends were also injured in the accident but were released from hospital the same day. The driver, whom Amy met that night, received a cut to the head.

Because of her injuries, she missed her GCSE exams, which she hopes to take when she starts an equestrian course at a college in Bath.

A man has been charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol and without insurance. He has been released on police bail.

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