Sophie Delezio - what did she do wrong in a former life?
Sophie Delezio is a little girl who’s had a terrible run of luck in her 5 years.
First, in 2003, she was badly burned (85% of her body) when a car crashed into her daycare centre, and lost both feet, some fingers and an ear.
Today she is in hospital in a critical condition after being hit by a car while crossing a pedestrian crossing outside her preschool. She has a broken jaw and shoulder, several broken ribs and internal bleeding. After initial fears that her injuries were life threatening, it seems she is now expected to fully recover.
The poor kid is going to have a phobia about old men. The driver in the 2003 smash was 68, and yesterday’s an 80 year old. Yesterday’s driver deserves to have the book thrown at him - what sort of fuckwit overtakes a car stopped at a pedestrian crossing? I said to my wife last night when we heard about the accident on the news that anyone who does that should lose their license permanently - I stick to that view, whether the idiot is 20 or 80.
Hopefully Sophie will recover fully. I think if she was my child, I’d be tempted to home school her and keep her wrapped in cotton wool.
Update (07/-5/2006): Perhaps I was a bit harsh in my judgement of the old guy whose car hit Sophie. Saw the crossing on the news and its a bit of a bastard on a 4 lane road. Still, on thinking about it, would you go flying through a crossing in the right lane if a car in the left lane had stopped to give way?
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