Car crash in Hawley leaves young woman with one arm and one leg - KTAB

HAWLEY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) - A crash near Hawley on March 19 turned the life of 22-year-old Kaylee Taylor upside down, with a long road of recovery ahead of her. That Wednesday, according to her mother, Gina Martin, Kaylee was in the passenger seat of a car with two other people when they experienced a blowout. The driver lost control of the vehicle and hit the median, causing it to flip multiple times. Martin said those scary details remain in her daughter's mind. "She remembers that they had a blowout. She remembers going into the median and flipping, remembers her arm going out the window," Martin said. Taylor's right arm went out of the window from the force of the crash, landing on a cable and severing her arm. Martin said the details after the incident become a blur for Taylor. "She remembers the blood in the Suburban. She remembers the ambulance ride to Hendrick because they kept trying to keep her awake. She started to get to where she wanted to go to sleep. She doesn't remember...She was in and out of it between the pain meds," Martin said. Once Taylor was flown to Fort Worth, she was rushed into surgery, where they cleaned up her arm and looked at her leg; the next day, they had to amputate it as well. Martin said that with many surgeries and rehabilitation ahead, her daughter is doing what she does best: fighting. "She always has fight to her; it just. She's always been one to fight for what she wants. She's fighting so hard right now," Martin said. "It's going to have to be at least a couple of months before they can even release her to a rehab." Even though Martin says Taylor is in high spirits now, she expects the reality to set in soon. "She was making the doctors laugh about her not having an arm,” Martin said. “But I don’t know if she actually fully understands what’s going on.” Martin and her family asked for one thing during this time: prayers and support. During this challenging time, Martin and her family are requesting prayers and support from their community. "Pray for her, for us; So that she gets better. That she comes out of this good," Martin said. The other people in the vehicle suffered a dislocated shoulder with tendon and ligament damage and broken and fractured ribs. Taylor has to undergo additional surgery to take off more of her leg due to an infection. Donations can be sent to the family through Cash App: $ginamartin814 and PayPal: @Gmartin675.