M5 crash victim wakes from coma

Monday 14 November 2011 01:00 GMT

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Emma Barton, whose sister and father were killed in the M5 crash, woke from her coma on Friday.

The 19-year-old was taken to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton after the 34-vehicle crash on 4 November. Her fiancé Chris Burbull, who was driving the car carrying Emma, her father Michael, 67, and her sister Valerie, 30, has been at her side.

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