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Local woman injured in car crash, loved ones raising funds to help with recovery

FLUSHING — A woman is hospitalized following a serious traffic accident Tuesday, and friends and family are asking for donations to help in her fight to recover.

Sunni Rae Scott of Bellaire, manager of Sunni Rae’s Buy Sell Trade in Flushing, sustained severe injuries, according to a GoFundMe page. The Times Leader made several attempts to secure official information about the crash from the Ohio State Highway Patrol throughout the week, but all were unsuccessful with dispatchers saying responding troopers were not available. However, Belmont County Prosecutor Kevin Flanagan was able to confirm an initial description of what occurred. Early reports indicated that a vehicle crossed the center line and struck Scott’s vehicle head-on.

“What we know is that it was an incident that occurred on State Route 331, and the car crossed the center line and struck a vehicle heading in the opposite direction and caused significant injury,” Flanagan said.

He added that it is “premature” to discuss potential charges.

“The investigation is far from over,” he said. “There’s reconstruction.”

According to the fundraising page, listed as Come Together for Sunni Rae organized by Tasha Scott on gofundme.com, Rae sustained multiple severe and minor injuries from the crash including organ damage, resulting in internal bleeding. She was transported to WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital for emergency surgery, and Tuesday evening she was transported again by medical helicopter to WVU Medicine’s J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she underwent more surgeries.

A post on the page states Rae had another surgery later in the week to ensure that her internal bleeding has stopped. She also had her lower right arm amputated.

After several surgeries her internal bleeding is reportedly very minimal now, or it may have stopped, and as of Friday she remained stable but in critical condition. The post states she will need several more surgeries on her abdomen and pelvis and to set multiple broken bones over the next several days or perhaps weeks.

“She has been making small improvements over the last two days,” the post states. “But she still has a long way to go.”

As of Friday evening, a total of 43 donations to the GoFundMe page had garnered 2,655 of the stated $15,000 goal.

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