This is Leicestershire -- The distraught father of a Leicester woman who had her foot severed by a New York taxi cab said he is flying out to be by her side. His daughter Sian, 23, had only arrived in New York on Monday night when she was struck by a yellow cab in midtown Manhattan yesterday morning near the Rockefeller Centre. Speaking outside the family's semi-detached home in New Parks, her distraught dad Jason said the family were flying out to New York today to be at Sian's side. He said: "She is in recovery now, and they have had to amputate what's left of her foot. "Her friend Keshia is still in shock. We are a really close family we are all devastated by what has happened. We don't know what to say. "We just want to be at our daughter's side right now." It is believed she had been eating a hotdog at the time when an out-of-control taxi hit her after it swerved to avoid a cyclist. A plumber used his belt to make a life-saving tourniquet for Sian's leg while a pizza truck owner raced to put her severed foot on ice. Witnesses said the vehicle was on Sixth Avenue and 49th Street just after 11am when it hit the cyclist before jumping the curb, crashing into Sian and coming to a stop by a fountain. Sian, a former student at De Montfort University, remained conscious throughout the ordeal and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where she is in a critical condition. One of her legs was severed at the ankle and she suffered injuries to the other. The cab driver, 24-year-old Faysal Kabir Mohammad Himon of Queens, was issued a summons for being an unauthorised driver and then set free, according to the New York Daily News. The Daily News spoke to Himon at the police precinct. David Justino, a 44-year-old plumber who witnessed the crash as he took a coffee break, told NBC he removed his belt and fashioned a tourniquet for Sian's leg before paramedics arrived. He said: "He hit the girl, she flew up in the air. I just grabbed my belt, went over, lifted her up, put it on, held it. "She was conscious the whole time, the poor thing,' he added to the New York Daily News. 'I wished she would have passed out... [She is a] strong girl, a brave girl." Police are questioning the taxi driver.
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This is Leicestershire -- The distraught father of a Leicester woman who had her foot severed by a New York taxi cab said he is flying out to be by her side. His daughter Sian, 23, had only arrived in New York on Monday night when she was struck by a yellow cab in midtown Manhattan yesterday morning near the Rockefeller Centre. Speaking outside the family's semi-detached home in New Parks, her distraught dad Jason said the family were flying out to New York today to be at Sian's side. He said: "She is in recovery now, and they have had to amputate what's left of her foot. "Her friend Keshia is still in shock. We are a really close family we are all devastated by what has happened. We don't know what to say. "We just want to be at our daughter's side right now." It is believed she had been eating a hotdog at the time when an out-of-control taxi hit her after it swerved to avoid a cyclist. A plumber used his belt to make a life-saving tourniquet for Sian's leg while a pizza truck owner raced to put her severed foot on ice. Witnesses said the vehicle was on Sixth Avenue and 49th Street just after 11am when it hit the cyclist before jumping the curb, crashing into Sian and coming to a stop by a fountain. Sian, a former student at De Montfort University, remained conscious throughout the ordeal and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where she is in a critical condition. One of her legs was severed at the ankle and she suffered injuries to the other. The cab driver, 24-year-old Faysal Kabir Mohammad Himon of Queens, was issued a summons for being an unauthorised driver and then set free, according to the New York Daily News. The Daily News spoke to Himon at the police precinct. David Justino, a 44-year-old plumber who witnessed the crash as he took a coffee break, told NBC he removed his belt and fashioned a tourniquet for Sian's leg before paramedics arrived. He said: "He hit the girl, she flew up in the air. I just grabbed my belt, went over, lifted her up, put it on, held it. "She was conscious the whole time, the poor thing,' he added to the New York Daily News. 'I wished she would have passed out... [She is a] strong girl, a brave girl." Police are questioning the taxi driver.
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