TODAY IN HISTORY: Atlas Road accident: mom opens her eyes for the first time
According to family members, she also moves her arm and leg.
This article made headlines on July 19, 2017. Since the accident a year ago, Kempton Express is still following Monica’s story. The latest article was published on July 13 this year:
• ‘My two children are dead and nothing has been done,’ says Birchleigh mother (VIDEO)
MONICA van Loggerenberg (28) of Birchleigh, who was seriously injured in an accident on July 8, which claimed the lives of two of her children, has opened her eyes for the first time on Sunday.
According to family members, she also moves her arm and leg.
Also read:
• Birchleigh siblings will be buried on Friday
• Mother does not know her two young children died in Atlas Road accident
On Tuesday Monica was still on life support and could not breathe on her own.
Her two children who died, Jean-Pierre (8) and Mackayla (3) van Loggerenberg, were buried from Maranatha Community Church on Friday.
Learners from Laerskool Birchleigh, where Jean-Pierre was a grade two learner, posted letters on the school’s fence last week in sympathy of the family’s loss.
Monica has still not been told about her children’s deaths. Her eight-month-old baby Abigail van Niekerk and fiancee, Juan van Niekerk, escaped without serious injuries. The accident happened on Atlas Road at the intersection with Bass Street.
