Dad asks public to help ‘my sweet little girl’
DELRAY BEACH — Farrah Fox, the suburban Boca Raton teen hurt last Sunday in a Delray Beach car crash, remains in a coma and “needs all the love and support she can get,” her father said in an online update on “my sweet little girl.”
O f f - d u t y P a l m B e a c h C ount y s he r i f f ’s d e put y Michael D’Avanzo ran a stop sign at about 5 p.m. on July 15 in his 2018 Chevrolet Silverado pickup and struck the car carrying Fox, 18, and Dylan De Giuseppe, 20, Delray Beach police say.
A s p o k e s ma n s a i d D e Giuseppe, who also lives west of Boca Raton, was released Friday from Delray Medical Center. But Fox remained there in critical condition.
Fox, who graduated from West Boca Raton High, just finished her freshman year at the University of Central Florida and plans to be an aeronautics engineer.
“Farrah is still in a coma, so she’s unconscious and breathing only with the help of a ventilator,” her father, Ira Fox, wrote late Thursday. “It is probably going to be a few weeks before her brain trauma has healed enough to allow her to open her eyes.”
The family has set up a GoFundMe webpage to raise money to help cover what it expects will be mountainous medical expenses before Farrah can, her father wrote, “enjoy the life she was meant for.” As of Saturday afternoon, the page had received more than 150 donations and raised more than $8,000 of To contribute to the GoFundMe account for Farrah Fox, go online to www.GoFundMe.com/ help-for-farrah its $100,000 goal.
“We’d like to thank everyone for your incredible support with your prayers, calls, texts, thoughts, shares, etc.,” Fox wrote. He said his daughter “is a very active person. She’s very loving and caring and someone who always likes to help people when she has the opportunity to do so. She has so many hopes and dreams for her bright future, which now have no certainty ... “
D ’Av a n z o , 2 5 , j o i n e d PBSO in January 2017 and is a road-patrol deputy, the sheriff ’s office said Thursday. He remains on active duty.
Police said six passengers were with D’Avanzo in the cab of his pickup. The deput y and t wo others were treated for minor injuries at the scene and two were taken to Delray Medical for minor injuries.
Police have not filed any charges as they investigate. They have not said if they suspect that either alcohol or drugs played a role. They also have not said if officers administered tests to anyone.