The orphaned siblings (brother and sister) are pictured holding hands for the first time after a horrific car crash that claimed the lives of their parents and baby sister. Angie, 8, and Zachary Clemens, 5, have been in hospital since surviving the head-on smash on April 7. Jim Clemens, 31, his wife Karisa, 29, and their two-month-old daughter Juliana all died after the crash in Texas, US, reports KTXS. Reports suggest the driver of the other car lost control and veered into oncoming traffic. Angie suffered brain injuries and was in a coma, but when she woke up the first person she asked for was little Zachary.
But the two children were still too sick for a reunion and had to wait another week before Zachary was well enough to get into a wheelchair. The emotional photo shows them lying solemnly, wearing neck braces in Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth. Their two-year-old brother Nicholas was treated and released from hospital, and their brother Wyatt, 4, was critically injured and is still undergoing treatment. He is paralyzed on his left side after suffering a stroke. Karisa’s aunt, Teresa Burrell, said: ‘It’s really devastating.
‘Little Zachary broke his back, but could feel his toes and that’s awesome. ‘But when they took him in for surgery, his lungs, they really struggled. ‘As we try to help these guys come to reality, when they are conscious, when they are able to understand that their parents are gone. That their little sister is gone, you know, it’s a challenge.’ A Facebook fundraising page has been set up by Teresa, from Salt Lake City in Utah, to cover medical bills and funeral costs. The page says: ‘The children will need extensive care for many months.