HOUSEWIFE Madam Shanti Baskaralingam and her two children were walking along a pavement in Toa Payoh Lorong 8 in May when a lorry suddenly careened towards them.

The 32-year-old instinctively tried to shove her son, Sarugesh, 3, from the impending danger, only to get land in its path herself.

She was critically injured and spent the next 17 days in Tan Tock Seng Hospital with multiple fractures, cuts and a severed right thumb.

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