12 Year Old Girl Has Been Hit By A Car While On Her Way To School

A 12-year-old girl has been hit by a car while walking across the road to school. The girl’s name has been identified as Leanne Mapanga, who is now in Mater hospital suffering minor injuries towards her brain and left arm, and major injuries towards her torso. Her mother described when she got the call about her daughter, she rushed to the hospital to see her, “she was bleeding everywhere, her torso was ripped and swollen and she wasn’t speaking.” For a moment her mother said “I thought she hadn’t made it, I thought that I’d lost her…” Right now Leanne is getting surgery to stitch her wounds, and will be staying in hospital for the next 3-6 weeks. UPDATE: the driver, who has only been identified as a man, is also in hospital, healing from a small wound to his forehead. If anyone knows of this accident, please inform the police. To stay updated on this terrible event, check out Channel 46 News daily.