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A woman was badly injured and has to re-learn how to walk after being hit by a tipper truck that ran over both her legs on April 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cherri Wong had just sent her daughter to school when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n
In an Instagram post on Monday (April 27), the founder of footwear brand Sunday Staples shared photos of the accident and her recovery process. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Aside from having surgery on her right knee and ankle, Wong wrote that she was “missing our normalcy” and has to re-learn many basic functions including standing, sitting and walking.<\/p>\n
“But most importantly, I am alive. I have my husband and children. The girls have their mummy,” added Wong. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In response to AsiaOne’s queries, the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force said they were alerted at about 9.45am to an accident involving a tipper truck and a pedestrian at the junction of Bayshore Road and Upper East Coast Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old female pedestrian was taken to Changi General Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old male driver is assisting with investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her husband wrote in an Instagram Story on Thursday that Wong would be tentatively discharged sometime between May 10 and 17.<\/p>\n
“She is terribly afraid of a life without nurses, a life without physio a lift away, and most of all, a life with children sprinting to her for a hug. But patient outcomes are markedly better as compared to remaining hospitalised so our doctor is kicking her back home!”<\/p>\n
He shared that her left leg, which was dragged on the asphalt, has a mid-sized crevice while her right leg is “still quite bruised and ballooned up at the knee and ankle from both operations”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Cherri is still healing and resting up; getting marginally better every day,” he added.<\/p>\n
AsiaOne has reached out to Wong for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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