Kelly Horan, the lone survivor of a head-on three-car crash in Littleton last summer, thanked her rescuers during a press conference this afternoon.
“I’m meeting everybody who saved my life that morning,” Horan said. “What can you say about something like that; it’s overwhelming.”
Horan was critically injured on Aug. 2, when, for still-undetermined reasons, Richard Hogsett, a 36-year-old local real estate agent, drove his Mercedes sedan onto the wrong side of a divided portion of Santa Fe Drive just south of West Belleview Avenue.
After a month-long investigation, police could find no reason why Hogsett steered around a divided median and accelerated into oncoming traffic.
He first hit the car driven by Horan, a 26-year-old nurse on her way home from a 12-hour shift at Porter Adventist Hospital.
Hogsett’s black sedan went airborne and landed on a car driven by 27-year-old hairdresser Neva Mondragon. Both died instantly.
Horan was hospitalized for weeks with head injuries and broken bones. She endured several surgeries and rehabilitation and still faces steep medical bills.
“It’s just been a really long road, and I still have a ways to go,” she said today.
Donations to the Kelly Horan Donation Fund can be made at any U.S. Bank location.
