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Tuesday, August 05, 2008, 10:16
But India Smith, 3, is still unable to move the rest of the right side of her body.
India was hit as she crossed a zebra crossing in Whitehorse Road, West Croydon, 10 days ago on Saturday, July 26.
The crash left her with serious head injuries, and she still has no feeling on the right hand side of her body.
Doctors can't say why this is, and her family are now terrified she will never walk again.
Her grandmother Yvette Wilson, of Whitehorse Road, who India had been visiting on the day of the accident , said: “She is the same really.
“Her foot is moving a little but her arm's not and they still don't know what's going to happen.
“Every day is better but it's still worrying not knowing whether she will use that leg and arm again.
“The doctors think she will, but they can't say for sure because that arm's doing nothing.”
India had been on the way back from the shops with her mum Kerry Smith, 28, and her sister Brooke, 6, at about 11.30am when she was hit by a DFS lorry.
She has been recovering in St George's Hospital, Tooting, and will have speech therapy and physiotherapy.
Yesterday, she was due to have stitches removed from her head.
Yvette said: “I think they're keeping her there to keep an eye on her head because it's a head injury.
“The speech one day seems all right and the next day it sounds a bit worse.
“She does make sentences but sometimes it seems like she's deaf and dumb. That should improve.
“She's moaning. They said she could be a bit spiteful because it's a bang on the head.
“Last night she was screaming. She's traumatised.”
India's mum has been at her bedside since the accident and won't leave her daughter.
Sister Brooke and brother Rio, seven, have also been visiting her.
Yvette said: “Her mum won't leave still. I told her to take the other kids for a McDonald's while I'm sitting there but she won't go.
“She sleeps next to the bed. She looks like a ghost. She's not sleeping, you can't sleep in there.”
The lorry driver was arrested at the scene of the accident on suspicion of dangerous driving and was bailed to return to a south London police station in September.
STILL RECOVERING: Little India Smith
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