An eight-year-old girl who nearly lost her legs after being run over by a lorry has taken her first pain-free steps after undergoing 34 operations in four years.Maria Turkowska, of Upper Bridge Road, Chelmsford, was on her way home from Westlands Community Primary School in October 2013 when she stepped off a traffic island on Waterhouse Lane into the path of an oncoming lorry.The vehicle dragged her along the ground for six feet, leaving doctors fighting to save her legs.Remarkably they were...
