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Holton Cheerleader Still in Hospital after Team Van Crash
HOLTON, Kan. (AP) - A Holton High School cheerleader is expected to undergo at least two more surgeries after her team's van rolled off an icy road and into a ditch.
WIBW-TV reports Christa Merriman already has had surgery to reconstruct her nose after the accident Friday night as she and fellow Holton cheerleaders were coming home from a game. The van carrying Christa, three teammates and their supervisor hit black ice on a bridge just north of Topeka and went into the ditch.
Christa says everyone had their seatbelts on but she somehow ended up in a storage part of the van.
She was still in the hospital Monday evening and says she will have at least two surgeries to fix a fractured vertebrae and a ruptured disk.
© Associated Press
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