COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio woman is fighting broken bones and brain injuries after she was hit by a car after attending Buckeye Country Superfest last Saturday.
Abbie McIlyar, 40, was walking across Kenny Road with a group of friends early Sunday morning when a vehicle made a right turn onto Kenny Road and hit McIlyar before driving off, her friends said.
Julie Olinger is one of McIlyar’s longtime friends. She was not there that night, but visited McIlyar in the hospital the next day.
Two injured in lightning strike near Columbus school
“She had a fractured hip, her ribs, and she has fractures in her face and her skull,” Olinger said. “I, her brain injury was the biggest concern for the doctors. She’s doing better than expected. So, I went to visit her the next day. It was so heartbreaking seeing her. She seemed so small laying there in the bed, and she had all these pillows propped up around her, and she was tied down and at that time, she was in a neck brace and a ventilator, and she could open her eyes and look at me just a little bit.”…