Horse killed in Muskegon County car accident ‘saved all of our lives,’ says injured girl
Updated 11:26 AM;
MUSKEGON, MI - After spending over a week in the hospital recovering from her injuries, 12-year-old Adriana Helsel returned home Thursday after a car struck her and a friend while riding their horses.
The horses, Jack and Dottie, died in the April 5 accident that injured the girls, absorbing the bulk of the car’s impact, police said.
Helsel’s continues to mourn her horse, Jack, who she said protected her and her friend, Layla Neiser, 12.
“Jack, he kind of saved all of us,” she said on April 15. “He was so big he kind of slowed the car down a little bit from the impact.”