‘She’s a fighter’: Survivor of fatal Liberty Bridge crash faces rough recovery

Madison Rau, 23, in an undated photo with her son, was hospitalized after being involved in a fatal three-vehicle crash Sunday on Pittsburgh’s Liberty Bridge. (Courtesy of Christie Ford)

Christie Ford watched her employee and friend Madison Rau lie helpless in a hospital bed Tuesday — a breathing tube down her throat and bones broken “from the top all the way to the bottom.”

Rau, 23, survived a three-vehicle crash early Sunday on the Liberty Bridge that shuttered both lanes of the Downtown span for nearly five hours. The car she was in burst into flames…

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