A 2016 ACCIDENT PARALYZED HER LEGS - LANSING STATE JOURNAL

Nick King/Lansing State Journal

On the day Diane Mills-Gutierrez lost the use of her legs, she and her family were driving their Chevrolet Impala on M-52 in Swan Creek Township, returning from a visit to her dad's home in Saginaw. 

Mills-Gutierrez was in the backseat. 

It was July 22, 2016. Just before 2 p.m., a woman driving a Honda Accord in the opposite lane struck the backside of a turning Jeep and hit a tire on the driver's side of Gutierrez's car.

It flipped several times. Her husband, Jesse, who was driving, sustained a mild- to moderate-traumatic brain injury and a broken hip. Their son, Sebastian,17, and daughter, Rebekah,15, who were on the passenger side of the car, walked away unscathed.

Mills-Gutierrez discovered she could not move from the neck down. She was taken to Covenant Medical Center in Saginaw for spinal surgery. Doctors informed her she'd broken her cervical spine upon impact in the accident, causing her paralysis .…Yoga has given her hope. Read more.