An Idaho teenager has told of the terrifying moment she was saved with a broken leg after being thrown 30 feet into the air over power lines in a horrific car crash.
On May 22, 2021, 16-year-old Kennedy Littledyke drove to the mountains near her home to watch the sunset with two friends, hoping to distract herself from a recent breakup.
As the three were driving home, Littledyke began crying behind the wheel and the car veered off to the left side of the road.
“I can’t remember what made me start crying again,” Littledyke said. He told Inside Edition. “Everyone says, ‘I should have pulled over.’ Yeah, I would have. But it happened so suddenly and so quickly.”
The crying boy overcorrected and crashed into a telephone pole, flipping over and throwing all three of his friends from the car.
Littledyke was the first to be thrown from the car, landing on a power line 30 feet in the air.
The girl said the wire broke her femur and caused severe injuries.
“In the process of being thrown, my arm actually got torn off and was hanging off the skin of my back. And then my femur broke on the wire and it was hanging in front of my face,” she said. told the outlet.
It turned out that the unfortunate landing position was the reason why she did not die instantly in the accident.
“A lot of people ask, ‘Why didn’t you bleed?’ Yes, the aorta in my leg was pinched by a wire, and the main artery in my arm was actually cauterized during the subsequent electric shock. .”
The girl, now 19, said she hung from a wire for an hour waiting to be rescued as blood began to drain from her face.
“I remember drowning in my own blood because the blood was running down my legs, the blood was running down my arms, and it was running into my nose. The blood was literally drowning me, so I… I just wiped it down,” Littledyke recalled.
Mr Littledyke was left hanging on the ground, unable to get off, and felt “helpless”.
“I didn’t know what to do in that situation,” she said. “I felt so helpless. And I remember starting to cry. I remember saying to myself, ‘If you cry, it’s over.’ Like, ‘This is the end for you.'”
“My second memory is receiving a FaceTime call. Of course I didn’t have a cell phone, it was out in the field, but I was imagining a phone call, and it was like, ‘Oh my god.’ It was a picture of God reaching out from the water.
When firefighters arrived to help Little Dyke, she recalled that one of the rescue workers grabbed her leg as her “lifeless body” fell onto the stretcher.
“They had to put a tourniquet on me and take my bones off the wires. And they said I screamed. Then when I got on the stretcher, it went quiet.”
The teen believed she was going to die after they dragged her down, although she wasn’t sure if she thought it or said it out loud to first responders. .
“I can’t remember if I said it in my mind or if I actually said it, but I remember wanting to say, ‘Thank you for trying to save my life, but this is it for me.'” I remember closing it. ”
Littledyke was taken to the University of Utah and underwent 21 surgeries for a fractured femur, humerus, clavicle and brachial plexus injury.
The extent of her injuries forced doctors to amputate her leg not once, but five times.
“They tried to shoot it in and through my knee. The bone broke pretty high up, so the leg continued to rot,” Littledyke said. “Every other day they would take more legs. And then they would go through surgery after surgery and then amputate more legs. Eventually, they would cut them off from the bone. It will happen.”
Since the accident, Littledyke has developed a more positive outlook on life and shares her story on social media as a speaker. The number of followers on TikTok is 382,000.
“Before the accident, I was struggling with my mental health. I wanted to commit suicide,” she told Inside Edition. “I never seriously planned for my future because I didn’t think there was one. I wasn’t happy.”
“I look back and think, ‘Wow, that’s pathetic.’ I mean, look at me now. I’m in a completely different, more difficult situation, but I’m very happy. ”
