Mum relives daughter’s crash trauma
Shirley Holmes with Daughter Paige Holmes.
The mother of a teenage girl who was seriously injured after being struck by a car has described the devastating impact the incident has had on her life.
Shirley Holmes, 39, of Fritchley, suffered every parent’s worst nightmare when her daughter Paige was knocked over in Cromford in August 2010.
Paige suffered such traumatic head injuries that doctors did not know if she would survive, and Shirley and dad Ali were given the heartbreaking decision whether to turn off her life support machine.
But now over two years later Paige, 16, has learnt to walk and talk again and is set to study beauty therapy at college.
However, since the crash Shirley has suffered debilitating bouts of depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
She said: “Seeing Paige lying on the road covered in blood with paramedics working to save her life has had a massive impact on me, something I don’t think I will ever get over.”
The mum-of-three said she used to be very relaxed but was now scared of travelling in cars, did not sleep or eat well and smoked too much.
She said: “I put all my energy in to seeing Paige get better but now even if I see a child at the edge of the pavement it makes my heart go.
“I suffer bad nightmares about burying my children.
“If they go out now I constantly panic and have fitted their phones with trackers.”
Shirley hopes her family’s ordeal will show the devastating consequences road accidents can have.
She added: “Motorists have people’s lives in their hands when they are on the roads.
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