The video, filmed outside University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, has been viewed more than 900,000 times.
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Georgia’s mother took to Facebook to plea for other parents to ensure their children wear safety helmets when cycling, skateboarding, or engaging in similar types of outdoor activities.
Georgia Fairthorne is in an induced coma with two different brain injuries after the freak accident.
Fairthorne explained Georgia had been playing with her sister Hermione and Hermione’s boyfriend when they made a decision to go out on their skateboards.
She warned, ‘I know it’s not cool to wear a helmet.
Georgia, a receptionist at a college, was not wearing a helmet when she crashed her skateboard. “It only took that one second”.
Emma Fairthorne, from Bournemouth, UK, said in the Facebook video that her 19-year-old daughter had suffered a severe head injury from falling off a skateboard.
It was only half an hour later when Emma heard shouts that Georgia was hurt.
Fairthone has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for the transport fees going back and forth to hospital and refreshments for her daughter’s room.
“I wish as a mum I had provided her with a helmet but we didn’t have one that fitted her”, Fairthorne said.
Doctors have put an intracranial pressure monitoring device, which they call a bolt, into Georgia’s head, which measures the pressure on her brain, which Emma says continues to fluctuate.
Emotional Emma added: “When we got to hospital, she was in and out of consciousness”. I’m just praying the best possible outcome happens for her.
“We all love her so much”.
“I just want to spread the message that parents should not let their kids out of the house without a helmet, whether they’re going to use a skateboard, skates, a bike or a scooter”.
“Then they sedated and intubated her”.
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“I don’t want you to give large amounts, maybe just one or two pounds each”, she wrote.
