Having emerged from a coma after two weeks, he shakes hands with his mother. The boy, who has undergone a tracheotomy, cannot speak but responded to the stimulation and shook the hand of his mother, who is next to him.

MDC, 22 years old, from Ficarazzi, in the Palermo area, is being kept under observation in the intensive care unit of thePalermo Civic hospital. His Ford Fiesta went off the road and crashed into a palm tree.