Please say a pray for Sophie
Sophie Delezio, who suffered horrific burns after a car crashed into her kindergarten in December 2003, is on life support after being hit by a car on a Sydney crossing this afternoon.
The five-year-old was struck by a car while being pushed across a pedestrian crossing in a stroller at Frenchs Forest Road in Seaforth about 4pm today, NRMA CareFlight spokesman Ian Badham said.
The vehicle involved was a Holden Apollo sedan which stopped.
Sophie's father Ron Delezio said the car struck her when it failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing.
"She was in a pram crossing the road and someone didn't stop," Mr Delezio told Macquarie radio. "It just hit the pram.
"We don't know her full condition yet. We believe she got a broken leg of some sort but we don't know the full extent at this stage."
A 2GB report said people rushed to the accident scene shouting "It's Sophie, it's Sophie".
The little girl, who has endured so much in her long recovery from the burns she suffered three years ago, is well known in the area.
Mr Badham said: "She's in a very serious condition. [She has] been flown by our team to the Sydney Children's Hospital with severe injuries.''
He said she had been placed on life support.
He said NRMA CareFlight were alerted to the accident after being called in by ambulance personnel who were the first to arrive at the scene.
She was believed to have been crossing the road at the time, he said.
Sophie was only three when she suffered burns to 85 per cent of her body after a car crashed into the Roundhouse Childcare Centre in Fairlight in December 2003.
Charges against the driver Donald John McNeall, 69, were dropped last year after the court could not rule that he had suffered a seizure.
Two years ago Sophie's father Ron o launched the Day of Difference Foundation to raise money for the burns unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead where Sophie was treated, and the skin culture laboratory that saved her life.
Police are appealing for witnesses to today's crash and warning motorists to avoid Frenchs Forest Road at Seaforth which will be closed while the investigation continues.
I only just got home and mum was crying trying to tell me. Apparently her father rang into the tv/radio and said she's had a heart attack and is critical. She has had way too much to go through already.
The five-year-old was struck by a car while being pushed across a pedestrian crossing in a stroller at Frenchs Forest Road in Seaforth about 4pm today, NRMA CareFlight spokesman Ian Badham said.
The vehicle involved was a Holden Apollo sedan which stopped.
Sophie's father Ron Delezio said the car struck her when it failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing.
"She was in a pram crossing the road and someone didn't stop," Mr Delezio told Macquarie radio. "It just hit the pram.
"We don't know her full condition yet. We believe she got a broken leg of some sort but we don't know the full extent at this stage."
A 2GB report said people rushed to the accident scene shouting "It's Sophie, it's Sophie".
The little girl, who has endured so much in her long recovery from the burns she suffered three years ago, is well known in the area.
Mr Badham said: "She's in a very serious condition. [She has] been flown by our team to the Sydney Children's Hospital with severe injuries.''
He said she had been placed on life support.
He said NRMA CareFlight were alerted to the accident after being called in by ambulance personnel who were the first to arrive at the scene.
She was believed to have been crossing the road at the time, he said.
Sophie was only three when she suffered burns to 85 per cent of her body after a car crashed into the Roundhouse Childcare Centre in Fairlight in December 2003.
Charges against the driver Donald John McNeall, 69, were dropped last year after the court could not rule that he had suffered a seizure.
Two years ago Sophie's father Ron o launched the Day of Difference Foundation to raise money for the burns unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead where Sophie was treated, and the skin culture laboratory that saved her life.
Police are appealing for witnesses to today's crash and warning motorists to avoid Frenchs Forest Road at Seaforth which will be closed while the investigation continues.
I only just got home and mum was crying trying to tell me. Apparently her father rang into the tv/radio and said she's had a heart attack and is critical. She has had way too much to go through already.