From barely clinging to life after a traumatic car crash to walking a runway at Paris Fashion Week, a 17-year-old Nova Scotia girl hopes telling her story will spare other teens from sharing her difficult road to recovery.

“Just young and stupid” is how Corrine Cameron described herself when, two years ago, she stepped into a friend’s vehicle after a party in Pictou County, N.S., and didn’t put on a seatbelt.

It was late at night and the car was speeding, she says, when it crashed — ejecting her and her friends.

Cameron was thrown from the vehicle and landed on a driveway. A man came running out after hearing the accident.

“He saw me and he thought I was dead, but I was speaking and talking, and I said, ‘Sir, will you please hold my hand?’ And he did.”

En route to the hospital in the

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