Teen left hanging from power line by broken leg speaks out on gruesome way she survived
This story really isn't one for people who get squeamish about injuries
Warning: This article contains graphic images and video which some readers may find distressing.
In what sounds like the most horrific crash, a teenager managed to survive despite being flung 30 feet in the air with broken limbs.
Kennedy Littledike was only 16 years old when she was in a life changing car crash and has spoken out about how she managed to live to tell the tale.
Kennedy, from Nampa, was in the crash back in May 2021, and ended up hanging from a power line with a broken leg.
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She ended up losing the leg as doctors were forced to amputate parts of the limb five times following the crash.
The teenager had recently gone through a breakup ahead of the crash and was with her friends who had encouraged her to do something fun in hopes of taking her mind off the heartache.
With her friends, Kennedy drove to the mountains near her house to watch the sunset.
Because of the breakup, Kennedy became emotional while driving back and realized the car had veered to the left.
In an interview with Inside Edition earlier this year, she admitted that she probably should have pulled over, but everything 'happened so quickly'.
Having pulled the wheel to try and get it back on the road, the teen's plan backfired and she overcorrected.
All three of those in the car were ejected from the vehicle, with Kennedy being flung 30 feet in the air.
"We didn't have our seat belts. So when we were flipping, and I was the first one out, I wasn't on the ground. I was actually hanging in the power line by my broken leg," she said.
As Kennedy was thrown into the air, her arm was ripped backwards and was 'hanging on by the skin on [her] back'.
Meanwhile, her femur - the upper thigh - had snapped over the wire, and was hanging in front of her face.
You'd think Kennedy's collision would have been fatal, but it was actually her painful landing that saved her life.
"A lot of people ask, ‘How did you not bleed out?’ Well, the main artery in my leg was pinched off by the power line, and then the main artery in my arm was actually cauterized when I got electrocuted," she said.
"I remember I was drowning in my blood because it was running from my leg, it was running from my arm, and it was going in my nose, and I was just wiping it out because it was literally drowning me."
After being rushed to hospital, Kennedy was forced to undergo 21 different surgeries.
Ultimately doctors were forced to amputate parts of her leg an incredible five different times.
However, Kennedy has been determined to maintain a positive outlook.
On the advice she'd give to someone else in her situation, she said: "Don't feel bad for yourself. That's the worst thing you can do is sit and feel bad for yourself and be like, ‘Why me? Why?’ Because you're not going to get an answer.
"You have your whole life ahead of you. Getting up, working for what you want, having goals, pushing yourself, and not feeling bad for yourself, that's going to be hard too. But at least you're going to be happier that way."
Gerrard Kaonga