Model and Plano resident Lauren Scruggs severely injured in plane propeller accident - KDAF

Plano resident Lauren Scruggs is full of life and ambition. *She’s building a budding career, which includes modeling, working in the wardrobe department of Gossip Girl and running a fashion blog lolo-mag.com.* Now the 23-year-old faces perhaps the biggest challenge of her life.

Saturday night she was taking a Christmas Light aerial tour on a two seater plane.* Once she got off the aircraft in McKinney, Scruggs ran into the planes propeller.

It was dark and her family believes Lauren did not see the propeller winding down.* The blades cut into her flesh, severing her left hand and also causing severe brain and facial injuries. *