Friends Aim to Raise $50k for Crash Victim

Friends of Lorna Tobin and her fellow yoga students have pulled together over the past two and a half weeks to raise money to help her pay for medical bills and living expenses when she is finally released from the hospital.

On the afternoon of May 20, at the intersection of Cedar Street and Cooper Lane in East Hampton Village, Tobin was involved in a two-vehicle crash and suffered a compound fracture of her ankle and a broken pelvis. The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association took Tobin to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she has had multiple surgeries and remains in recovery.

Corey De Rosa, the owner and instructor at Tapovana Ashtanga Healing Center, said Tobin practices yoga there every day. They first met in 2005, when she was an assistant manager at Sag Harbor Gym, he said.

De Rosa said Tobin is from Hampton Bays, but was most recently residing in East Hampton, where she was a live-in aide to a German foreign exchange student at Ross School. She has also lived in Sag Harbor. With the school year ending, Tobin now has no place to live, he said. He explained that typically during the summer she makes a living as a waitress, but she won't be able to do any jobs on her feet for some time.

Tobin is also a transformational breath facilitator and a personal trainer. According to her turtleshellhealth.com bio, she is also a Reiki practitioner.

Learn more about the fundraising campaign at giveforward.com.