One of the two survivors from the horrific car crash in Cardiff has been left 'unrecognisable' from her injuries after she was trapped in wreckage for almost two days, her mum has revealed. Sophie Russon was one of the five victims in the fatal smash over the weekend which killed three of her friends as the 20-year-old lay in the undiscovered car next to her dead pals for over a day.
Her mother, Anna Certowicz has been by her daughter's bedside every day as she remains in critical condition after suffering a fractured skull and a bleed to the brain as well as breaking her neck and spine, the Mirror reports. Sophie, along with pals Eve Smith, Darcy Ross, Rafel Jeanne and Shane Loughlin had been travelling in a Volkswagen Tiguan from Porthcrawl to a nightclub in Newport on Friday evening when the crash occurred.
The smashed up vehicle was discovered in woodland of a dual carriageway in the St Mellon's area of the capital in the early hours of Sunday morning. Shane, 32 was the only other passenger to survive and also remains in a critical condition at the University Hospital of Wales.
