Radio New Zealand

Jane Taylor, became the face of the injured Canterbury quake survivors, her image on the front page of the newspapers, and carried around the world, in the days after the February disaster. Jane was working as the manager of a fashion store in Cashel Mall when the quake hit. She suffered a fractured neck and pelvis, a damaged lower back, crushed ribs, a broken ankle and compressed lung. Her facial injuries so bad that members of her family did not recognise her from the picture of her in the Christchurch Press.