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« Alert: AG Lynch signs off on using tobacco money | Today | No verdict today in Richardson murder case » June 26, 2007Mom tells of finding daughter injured on Rte. 1SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- When Grazyna Chylinska answered the phone early Saturday, she heard her daughter’s worried voice. It was after midnight and Sylvia was stranded on Route 1 with a flat tire. Sylvia said she was afraid someone would hit her car on the dark highway, so she left it in the breakdown lane and waited for her mother in the grass nearby. Chylinska, a divorced mother of two, drove the five-minute stretch from her Green Hill home to the highway. Her daughter, Sylvia Bogusz, who graduated from South Kingstown High School June 18, had already enrolled in three summer courses at the University of Rhode Island. To celebrate Sylvia’s accomplishments, the family had eaten at an area restaurant. “Do I look beautiful?” Sylvia asked at dinner. “Yes,” her mother said, “of course you do.” Now, on Route 1, Chylinska spotted her daughter in a southbound lane of traffic, bleeding and unconscious. Only a few minutes before Chylinska had arrived, police said Heidi L. Harrall had lost control of her car and struck Sylvia, breaking her bones and throwing her more than 100 feet away. “I stood in the middle of the road and tried to slow down the traffic. I didn’t want a car to run over my baby,” Chylinska said today. “I was just five minutes away. If I had the power to fly, I could have flown to her and lifted her and saved her,” she sobbed. Sylvia remains in serious condition this afternoon at Rhode Island Hospital, where she had been upgraded yesterday morning from critical. -- Journal staff writer Paul Davis Chylinska spent this morning resting at her Aspen Street home. Unable to sleep well since the accident, she needed the rest, she said. The day before, she had cried in District Court as Harrall -- the 45-year-old woman charged with hitting her daughter -- was arraigned on felony charges of driving under the influence resulting in serious injury and driving with reckless disregard for the safety of others. Police said Harrall, who was held without bail on a previous charge, had been driving 90 miles an hour when she lost control of her 1994 Audi. But Chylinska today said little about Harrall. Instead, she focused on her daughter, born the same day as her mother: Dec. 21. “She’s my miracle baby, born on my birthday,” she said. “God gave me that baby for a reason.” Full story to come in tomorrow's Providence Journal and on projo.com ... Posted by Mike McKinney Commentsmrs k marchetti | July 17, 2007 5:43 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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Oct 2005 - March 2006
hang in there kiddo you have a lot of people sending you love and best wishes for all of you.feel better soon sylvia -mrs marchetti