A Swedish model is brain dead after getting hit by a city bus in
Roosevelt Island last week, authorities and relatives said Monday.
Anna Maria Mostrom, 29, was cycling on Main St. last Wednesday when a
bus making a left turn struck her, causing her to fall and sustain serious
brain injuries, police said.
She is listed in critical condition at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
"She was rammed off the bus and the damage was so severe that she
is brain dead," her father Ronny Mostrom told a Swedish newspaper.
"We can hope for a miracle, but the doctors said there is no realistic
chance."
Family and friends have been keeping vigil at the hospital, where
Mostrom had undergone two surgeries, the report said. But they called her
prognosis "bleak."
Doctors are expected to decide on whether to take her off a ventilator
at the start of this week and the family has decided to donate her organs,
according to the news report.
The 51-year-old bus driver remained at the scene following the crash
and has not been charged, police said.
Mostrom was a contestant in the Scandinavian version of "Top
Model" in 2005, which launched her catwalk career. She has lived in New
York City for the past two years.
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