Sophia Floersch out of hospital and ‘walking again’ as she flies home after Macau Grand Prix horror crash
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Sophia Floersch has said she is finally leaving hospital and flying back home to Germany, eight days after fracturing her spine in a horror crash at the Macau Grand Prix.
The 17-year-old’s car went airborne after crashing at the Guia Circuit’s Lisboa corner, and was catapulted at 276 kilometres per hour (171 miles per hour) through the safety fencing and into a photographers’ bunker.
Fellow Formula Three driver Sho Tsuboi, as well as two photographers and a marshal, were also taken to the emergency room but none had life-threatening injuries.
“Today I am flying back home,” Floersch wrote in a Facebook post. “Really happy to see all my family and friends in the next days again.
“I am still overwhelmed by all the support I got from you fans all around the world.”
Floersch underwent 11 hours of surgery last Monday to repair the fracture, with doctors intentionally working slowly to remove a bone splinter that was dangerously close to her spinal cord.
