Polish PM says she's OK after crash, ready to leave hospital
Posted February 12, 2017 6:00 am
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo says she feels fine and is ready to leave the hospital where she has been a patient since a limousine accident Friday.
Szydlo spoke by telephone Sunday with the Wiadomosci news program of the state TVP television from a Warsaw government hospital where she is under observation.
She says she has received a phone call from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a "very personal letter" from British Prime Minister Theresa May.
Szydlo said she feels "ready to leave hospital today, but it depends on the doctors."
She says she is being treated for an injury that resulted from her seat belt having worked property when her limousine hit a tree while trying to avoid a small car.
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo is transported to a rescue helicopter after a car accident in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Szydlo suffered minor injuries Friday after a small Fiat hit her car, officials and Polish news reports said. Her spokesman said she was being examined in a hospital but wasn't badly hurt. (AP Photo)
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Security officers guard a rescue helicopter as Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo is transported to it after a car accident in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Szydlo suffered minor injuries Friday after a small Fiat hit her car, officials and Polish news reports said. Her spokesman said she was being examined in a hospital but wasn't badly hurt. (AP Photo)
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An Air Rescue helicopter lands at the Military Medical Institute with Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, after she suffered injuries in a car crash in Oswiecim, her hometown in southern Poland, Friday evening. Szydlo was flown by helicopter to Warsaw for medical tests, even though doctors and her spokesman said that she was not badly hurt. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Media waits in front of the government hospital, the Military Medical Institute, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017., where Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo is undergoing detailed medical tests after she was hurt, but not seriously, when her limousine was involved in a car crash and hit a tree in her southern hometown of Oswiecim on Friday night. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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