A mother-of-two living in Belfast has been left in a coma after a road collision in South Africa.
Crystal Fiddes, 36, has been living in Belfast for the past two years, but had been visiting family in South Africa last week when the collision happened.
"She was in a car accident and a lorry hit her, she was knocked unconscious and she's in a coma now," her friend Luna Saffron-Todd told Belfast Live.
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"Her brain has swelling, so she's on life support. Her family have given all the money they have for treatment, but they've run out of money and unfortunately Crystal didn't have travel insurance.
"So I've started a GoFundMe page to try and help with her treatment and to try and get her back here as well, she's two wee boys as well, they're six and two."
Luna said Crystal was her best friend and she wanted to do everything she could to help someone who always thought of others first.
"She's such a positive persona and so helpful and kind," Luna added.
"She would always go out of her way to do something for you and she would always put someone else before her, she would never think of herself.
"I just need her story to get out and for people, if they can, to donate. She's my best friend and I just want her to come home alive and well and for her not to have any complications with her brain injury."
Luna said she was in contact with Crystal's family, some of whom have now also travelled out from Belfast to be with her.
"I'm in a group chat with her family and they've been giving updates on her," she said.
"Her ex-husband, her dad and the two kids have travelled over from Belfast and the family is obviously not doing good at the minute.
"Even if it's just £5, if people can donate, every little bit helps - she's got two kids, they can't grow up without a mum.
"Especially coming up to Christmas as well, it's just such a bad time of year for it to happen."
Luna's GoFundMe page for Crystal can be found here.
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