Her family declined to be interviewed.

The New Paper understands that she had got her licence only in November or December last year.

Strong

A close friend of the two girls, Miss Zulina Yeo, told The New Paper that she was supposed to join them on the night before the accident.

"I feel guilty. If I had gone that night, we would have taken a cab home together and this would have never happened," she said.

She explained that she had pulled out of the outing because she had plans to celebrate the first day of Chinese New Year.

Said Zulina: "I will always remember Adilah's last words to me,"We'll see you next week?."

The three friends have known one another since secondary school.

After graduation, they even worked in the same retail outlet where Adilah was still working.

Zulina was planning to celebrate Adilah's birthday but spent the days before it visiting her friend in hospital instead.

"I told her that she was strong and that she would pull through, but she couldn't respond. She just teared when she heard that," said Zulina.

Said Madam Zubaidah,who attended Adilah's funeral:" When I look at my daughter, I think about Adilah."

"But it was all fated. Even if I had deterred Fizah from going out that day, it (the accident) might have happened another time."

Madam Zubaidah is now convinced that Nurhafizah will "make it", given her "strong will" and with the support of her family.

"My only wish is that through this, she will learn to appreciate the life that she has and the chance that God has given her," said Madam Zubaidah.

This article was first published in The New Paper.