LAWYERS for an Aberporth toddler who suffered catastrophic injuries in a car crash in which her mother died have launched her High Court bid for massive compensation.

Cora-Lynn Kelley-Mattock was just two when her 19 year-old mum, Josephine, accidentally crashed the family VW Polo into a wall. The teenager died from brain injuries three days after the accident on the A484 near Llandygwydd and Cora-Lynn, who was a back-seat passenger, was terribly injured.

Now four, she suffered severe traumatic head injuries in the crash which happened on Boxing Day 2013.

She has been left with life-changing disabilities, her barrister, James Bell, said in a writ issued at London’s High Court.

Cora-Lynn’s legal team now want her late mother’s motor insurers to pay her damages.

They claim that her mum was negligent in crashing the car and may also have failed to strap her into her baby seat properly.

Mr Bell states in the writ that the car was approaching the entrance to the Llwyndyrys Residential Home, near Cenarth, when it left the road.

It “travelled along the grass verge and collided heavily sideways with a dry stone wall”.

The little girl “was found hanging” from her baby seat “folded at the waist and suspended by the waist belt of the seat. Her upper body was not restrained by the shoulder straps,” the writ alleges.