Tulare native suffers traumatic brain injury in Sacramento

Emily Meneses' ma is simply a farmworker and a azygous parent who is present doing everything she tin to assistance her daughter.

TULARE, Calif. (KFSN) -- A South Valley pistillate present attending Sacramento State is successful the infirmary with a traumatic encephalon wounded aft crashing her electrical scooter past week.

Her household rushed to beryllium by her broadside and is present raising wealth assistance with expenses.

"We thought we were going to suffer her. Very scary, a batch of crying, a batch of panic," said Nina Sanchez, Emily's sister.

Sanchez recounts however she felt moments aft getting the telephone each household dreads.

Her sister, Emily Meneses, was riding her scooter location from enactment successful Sacramento Friday day erstwhile constabulary accidental she crashed into a parked car.

"She lives little than 10 minutes distant from enactment and she was little than 2 minutes retired from getting home," said Sanchez.

Thankfully, her roommate was tracking her determination and noticed she stopped moving and knew thing was wrong.

Emily fractured her skull successful the clang and suffered a encephalon bleed.

"She remembers going to enactment successful the greeting but she has nary representation of thing else," said Sanchez.

Emily grew up successful Tulare and present attends Sacramento State wherever she's studying code pathology.

The 19-year-old enjoys the outdoors and spending clip with family.

While she is expected to beryllium alright and instrumentality to doing what she loves, her doctors accidental it is going to beryllium a agelong roadworthy to recovery.

Her ma is simply a farmworker, and a azygous mother, who is present doing everything she tin to assistance her daughter.

"She's not going to enactment truthful she tin beryllium present successful the infirmary with Emily for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes. I started a GoFundMe yesterday to assistance offset her costs," said Sanchez.

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