Ready to recharge. Hoda Kotb is taking another break from Today after daughter Hope’s hospital stay.
07.03.2023 - 15:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The devastated mum of a 20-year-old girl who was trapped in a car crash for almost two days has slammed police who allegedly told her to 'stop calling' for taking nearly 46 hours to find her daughter.
On Monday, police discovered Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21 and Rafel Jeanne, 24 dead inside a Volkswagen Tiguan while Sophie Russon and Shane Loughlin, 32 survived but remain in a critical condition. All five were last seen travelling in the vehicle in the early hours of Saturday after a night out when the car came off the A48(M) in Cardiff and crashed into trees, the Mirror reports.
The girls had been in Newport earlier in the night and were reported missing to Gwent Police but the force told Sophie's concerned mother, Anna Certowicz that they were 'probably out partying'.
The mum-of-three has now revealed how she desperately drove around South Wales searching for Sophie and her daughter's friends after she was forced to take the investigation into her own hands. She is now demanding answers as to why it took police so long to find the wreckage and has slammed them for not starting a search as soon as they were reported missing.
She told the Daily Mail: "It's too awful to imagine what she went through trapped in the car in the dark until it got light and then dark again over two days. Sophie was lying there for all that time, they could all have been found much quicker if the police had started searching straight away."
She claims she first phoned Gwent Police at noon on Saturday and made a total of 10 calls that day but she was dismissed. She said the force only put out its own public appeal the following day, shortly after 11pm on Sunday.
Ms Russon, a bank worker, spent two days trapped inside the car where her two friends
Ready to recharge. Hoda Kotb is taking another break from Today after daughter Hope’s hospital stay.
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Truly grateful. Hoda Kotb thanked her fans for their messages of support after her daughter Hope’s recent health scare.
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Hoda Kotb returned to the “Today” show after spending a few weeks with her 3-year-old daughter, Hope, who was in the ICU for a few days. “My youngest, Hope, was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Hoda, who has been with NBC News since 1998, said at the start of the show. “I’m so grateful she’s home…I was waiting for that day to come.
Today. After being absent from the NBC morning show since mid-February due to “a family health matter,” was back on the air on Monday. She revealed that her three-year old daughter, Hope, was briefly hospitalized but has since been discharged and is recovering at home. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“My youngest, Hope, was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Kotb told her cohost , who was also briefly absent from Today after testing positive for COVID last week.
pictures show two Newport clubbers smiling before they vanished this weekend - as police find three bodies in a crashed car. Darcy Ross and Rafel Jeanne smile in Snapchat images. The pair vanished alongside Sophie Russon, 20, Eve Smith, 21, and Shane Loughlin disappeared on Friday night.
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