(WBBH) A Florida mother of five faces a tough new reality after stopping to help when she saw an accident on the interstate.
Early Sunday morning, Dani Hagmann was driving home alone on I-75 in Fort Myers.
"I was tired, and I thought 'did that really just happen?' " she recalls.
The only other car on the road in front of her lost control and crashed. Hagmann knew she had to stop and help.
"So I pulled up and ran over to her. She was crying and upset," she explained.
Hagmann called 911 then waited with the woman for emergency crews.
"She was shaking and in shock. 'Are you cold honey? Well, I have a blanket in the back of my car. I"ll go and get it,'" she remembers.
Not seeing any cars coming, Hagmann went to grab the blanket.
"I heard a bang, and I just felt it...and I felt the car hit me," she said.
Hagmann was pinned between the two cars and quickly began losing a lot of blood. She had to have both legs amputated.
Hagmann is now relying on the support of her family, who says she is a fighter.
She says her biggest worry is her five kids, ranging in age from 10 years to 8 months.
"That's hurting her the most, not being home with them," said Sandy Rieser, Hagmann's mom.
Her children are the force driving her to recovery.
"I don't intend to ride out of rehab in a wheelchair. I will walk out in my prosthetics, and I will walk to all of my kids' things, and I will take them to the beach, and I will do all the things I intended to do with them this summer. I don't consider that a long road it is what it needs to be and i"m going to get it done, the end," she said.
A close friend has set up a You Caring page to help out with what will likely be massive medical bills as the family does not have insurance.
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