There is such a thing as being at the right place at the right time. Some might even call that a miracle. A Florida sheriff’s deputy was on patrol when he saw a motorcyclist driving at a high speed. Suddenly, the motorcycle slammed into the driver’s side of another vehicle at the intersection.

Inside the car was Kayleigh Foley and her two daughters, three-year-old Ariel and six-month old Lola. “I stopped at the stop sign, and that was right in front of the intersection,” Foley said. “So I didn’t see anyone coming.”

“As I’m almost to the intersection, I turn to my left and see the bike and a bright light,” she said. “And then I just remember the impact and my whole body aching.” The mom quickly realized there was someone outside and she began trying to get help.

Kayleigh Foley holds her daughter, Lola, in the hospital. Photo courtesy of Foley

“Ariel, my oldest [was] screaming,” Foley said. “I was honking my horn to let him know that I was alive, that we were in here to come for help.” Outside, having witnessed the speeding motorcyclist was Deputy Sgt. Dave Musgrove. “I saw the pile of rubble, but I didn’t see the motorcyclist,” he said.

Then I heard screaming…and I saw the motorcyclist impaled into the vehicle to my left.”

Inside the car, Foley quickly realized that the motorcyclist had flown into the car and was lying on top of the baby. “When [the motorcyclist] initially crashed into us, I didn’t realize that he was in the car until I turned around trying to look for Lola and I see a head and blood,” she said. “That’s when I realized that he was on top of her.”

Musgrove, the only officer at the scene, pulled Ariel out and handed her to a passerby. He went back for Lola, quickly pulling the driver off of the baby with the help of the passerby. After cutting the seatbelt off, Musgrove was able to get the baby out.

Realizing Lola didn’t have a pulse, the deputy administered CPR on Lola. “I take her over to the median, get her out of the car seat, and I start doing chest compressions,” Musgrove said. “Shortly after I started doing chest compressions, I heard a breath. It wasn’t a steady breath, but it was something. Shortly after that first breath, EMS arrived and they took over.” Unfortunately, the motorcyclist died at the scene.

Charlotte County Deputy Sgt. Dave Musgrove holds Lola Foley. Photo courtesy of Musgrove

Fortunately, emergency responders detected a pulse in Lola. As all of this was happening, Foley was remembering her fiancé, who had passed away only six months earlier.

I can’t lose another person,” she recalled thinking.

Lola spent a little more than two weeks at the hospital and is home and acting like her normal self, Foley said. The little girl still has a rough road ahead – Lola had three skull fractures and a traumatic brain injury. “We’re just trying to be positive and everything,” Foley said. 

But more than anything, her gratitude lies with Musgrove, who Foley said has become an ‘uncle’ to the girls. “We’re forever grateful for him,” Foley expressed. “He’s our family now.” A GoFundMe was created to help with medical expenses and has so far raised more than $77,000. Watch below to hear from Foley and Musgrove.

Sources: People | ABC7 Chicago