A five-year-old Sydney girl who survived terrible burns when a car ploughed into her daycare centre almost three years ago is on life support after being hit by another car.
Sophie Delezio was being pushed in a pram across a pedestrian crossing outside her school in the northern Sydney suburb of Seaforth on Friday when she was hit.
She suffered serious chest and leg injuries, and was treated for an hour at the scene before being airlifted to hospital.
The hospital's acting executive director Dr Michael Brydon says she is in a critical but stable condition, and is likely to be on life-support for several weeks.
"Sophie, thank God, isn't as badly injured as we first thought. She still is very unwell, she's got some serious injuries, particularly to her chest and legs. However, the head injury that we thought was very serious doesn't appear to be as serious as we first thought."
Sophie became well-known after she made a remarkable recovery from the 2003 accident, in which she lost both feet, some fingers and suffered third-degree burns to 85 percent of her body.