Lisanne Pohl: UPDATE

German exchange student and BCC member Lisanne Pohl was severely injured in the accident which claimed the life of Stacy King, her host mother and also a BCC member...

--ryan

Exchanging high school for healing
FOREIGN STUDENT'S PAIN, GRIEF WEREN'T PART OF CURRICULUM
By Sarah Hoye
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

The sound of screeching wheels and images of blurred asphalt flashed before Lisanne Pohl's eyes like a movie.

Lisanne, 17, and Stacy King, 26, were bicycling on Ky. 169 in Jessamine County on May 8 when a car hit both of them.

"I didn't even have a second, and my body was flipping over the car," said Lisanne, 17, an exchange student from Germany who spent the last school year at West Jessamine High School. "You couldn't do anything. If I did, something worse might have happened."

Hurt and confused, Lisanne lay alone at the University of Kentucky Hospital in critical condition with shattered kneecaps, a broken pelvis and broken bones in her left arm and left leg. She later learned that King -- her host mother while she was in the United States -- had died...