A chilling video shows a three-year-old girl admiring and pointing at a horse just feet away from her in a Nevada meadow, moments before the wild mustang attacked her.
In the video, the girl’s mother, Haley Wilkey, can be heard asking her young daughter, “What is it?” as three-year-old Olivia points at the wild beast and her older sister looks on.
The three-year-old then turns around in the short clip from the family’s outing to Mount Charleston on Aug. 3.
Haley later told him Fox 5 Vegas who stopped recording when his son came over and had to scold him to slow down.
In that brief moment when she looked away, Haley said the horse walked up to Olivia and kicked her in the head, knocking the young woman unconscious.
A chilling video shows a three-year-old girl admiring and pointing at a horse just feet away from her in a Nevada meadow, moments before the beast kicked her.
The girl’s mother, Haley Wilkey, said she stopped recording to tell her son to slow down when the wild Mustang kicked 3-year-old Olivia.
She said she didn’t actually see the horse kick Olivia, but her older sister watched the horror unfold and said Olivia fell to the ground instantly.
“I instantly saw his head being split open,” Haley said.
“I thought he was dead because he wasn’t responding,” she said.
Panic gripped the mother as she desperately tried to stop the bleeding with the help of a stranger.
“He had a first aid kit. He gave me some gauze and helped me put pressure on my head until the bleeding slowed down a little bit,” Haley said. “If we let up on the pressure a little bit, the bleeding would start again.”
The young girl fell instantly to the ground, her older sister said.
With no cell phone reception, the girl’s father had to drive down the mountain to call for help. “I think he was stuck with his head shut for almost 45 minutes waiting for the ambulance to come,” Haley said.
Olivia was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital, where she underwent a three-hour emergency surgery to repair her skull. She suffered a severe skull fracture and brain bleeding, as well as a severe brain contusion and concussion.
Doctors monitored her closely for 12 hours before the procedure.
Olivia was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital, where she underwent a three-hour emergency surgery to repair her skull.
The young woman is now recovering at home after scans showed she had no brain injuries from the attack.
“I’ll be making payments for the rest of my life, I don’t care. Just get her somewhere safe,” said Olivia’s father, Austin. CLASSexpressing the family’s enormous relief that their daughter was alive.
According to a GoFundMe Page created by the Wilkeys, Olivia has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home.
Scans showed she had no brain injuries from the attack and her family says she is now sitting back and playing, Fox 5 Las Vegas reports.
Olivia’s family says she is now sitting up and playing.
Still, the family said, “We know he has a long road ahead of him, but it’s a very optimistic road.”
The family is eternally grateful to the strangers who came to their aid, including the good Samaritan who helped stop Olivia’s bleeding.
“I wish I had his phone number. I actually hugged him and said, ‘Thank you so much. You saved my daughter,'” Austin said.
Looking back, Olivia’s mother said she and her family were too close to the horse at the time. Knowing what she knows now, she said they wouldn’t have been there in the first place.