A BRAVE teenager who suffered horrific injuries in a car crash is returning to her school tonight - for the prom.

Amy Endean, of Leigh Sinton, near Worcester, risked losing the sight in her left eye following the crash, in which she sustained fractures to the eye socket, pelvis, cheek and jaw bones.

The 16-year-old had a six- hour operation, during which her scalp was cut from ear to ear, her face peeled back and her eye socket rebuilt, before her wounds were stapled back together with 50 staples.

Despite her horrific injuries, which have caused memory loss and blurred vision, Amy, a former pupil at The Chase in Malvern, is determined to go to tonight's prom, accompanied by her 18-year-old sister Laura.

"I didn't doubt I would go and I haven't really been self conscious about it," said the youngster, who was due to have her staples out yesterday.

"I can't really remember what happened - my friend told me. He said he couldn't see my face because of the blood. I had inch wide cuts to my eye and every single cut went down to my skull.

"They could see the lines on my skull were it had been scratched."

Amy's dad David described the moment he and his wife, 42-year-old Jane, received a knock at their door in the early hours of Saturday, June 2.

"They said Amy had been involved in an - as of yet - non fatal accident," said the 44-year-old. When we got to the hospital, she had a massive gash across the top of her head and left eye. She was convulsing and being sick."

He said his daughter had 40 stitches in her eye, before doctors at Worcestershire Royal Hospital reconstructed her socket in the second operation, when a titanium dish was screwed into her face.

Mr Endean said the family thought Amy was at a friend's house when the crash happened, on the Upton-upon-Severn to Strensham road, but discovered the pair had gone out without permission.

Two of her friends - Fliss Evans, 16, Adam Roberts, 18, and her boyfriend, 17-year-old Graham Handley, were also injured in the accident, but were released from hospital the same day. The driver, whom Amy met that night, received a cut to the head.

Because of her injuries, she missed her GCSE exams, which she hopes to take when she starts an equestrian course at a college in Bath.

l A man has been charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol and without insurance. He has been released on police bail.