Vernon Hills girl whose family died in crash expected to recover.
A 9-year-old Vernon Hills girl who survived a horrific car crash that killed her family is expected to make a full recovery, officials said Tuesday.
Rinka Hirayama was in fair condition at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, a spokeswoman there said. The girl was the lone survivor of a crash Friday night in a remote stretch of Arizona desert that killed her 16-year-old brother, Yuki, and her parents, Tomohiro and Sachiyo Hirayama, police said.
Rinka is a third-grader at Half Day School in Lincolnshire. Scott Warren, superintendent of Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103, told parents in an email that Rinka was alert and expected to fully recover. Read More