Originally Posted by Cake (Post 607518)

Hi Everyone

I want to let you guys know what's going on, as you're all my friends.

Three of my kids were in a very serious car crash on Tuesday night. My SIL (my husband's sister, Lisa) was taking Bailey, Olivia and Dayne, with her daughter Maddy up to Matt's parents house to stay, then they were going to go to the zoo the next day. But Lisa's car hit a tanker truck head on, both going 110kph.

Lisa was knocked unconsious straight away.

My 9 year old daughter Olivia, did not survive. Her injuries were extensive. She was on the ventilator etc for a while but they said she couldn't recover from it, so we let them turn the machine's off at around 3:40am yesterday (Wednesday morning here in Aus, your Tuesday).

My eldest daughter, Bailey, who is 11, was so brave. She pulled Dayne out of the car, kept screaming at Liv to wake up and even called us to tell us what happened. She has a sore chest from the seatbelt but is otherwise physically ok.

Dayne's (he's 7) face is cut to pieces from all the glass. He has some cuts held together with stitches but most of them are small. He has thousands of them though, all over his face and head. They had to take all the glass out bit by bit, including some on his eyelids. We are so glad he was asleep when it happened or some of the glass would have gone in his eyes. He also has a sore tummy because of the seatbelt. They thought he might have a broken pelvis, but thankfully he doesn't.

Lisa is in a very bad way. She's on the ventilator. She has some broken bones but the main worry is her head injury. She had multiple bleeds in the brain that they operated on but her brain damage is extensive. She's hanging on for dear life and we're all praying she's going to be ok.

It's all so surreal at the moment, so please keep us in your thoughts while we struggle through this nightmare, and keep Lisa in your prayers. We dont' want this to get any worse than it already is. She needs to be ok.

I can't write any more.
x Kate

Originally Posted by Cake (Post 608532)

Thank you all SOO much.

Knowing we have such a huge amount of love and support from around the world gives us so much strength and comfort.

Maddy, our niece, is doing really well, hardly a scratch on her. Lisa is still very critical but has started improving bit by bit. In a few days they'll see if she's up to breathing or anything on her own. She's had a few setbacks but we're holding on to the good parts we can and keeping hope that she'll recover well.

Thank you again for all your kind thoughts.

I know some of you want our facebook details to keep on track of what's going on, as I just can't keep updating everywhere. If you search on facebook, my name is Kate Hibbert, in Australia. Just add a note to your friend request to let me know you're from here. Also my blog is at www.thesixofus.wordpress.com and I update that when I can.

xx Kate