Kennedy Littledike, a teenager from Nampa, Idaho, USA, survived a potentially deadly crash while driving with two friends.
They proposed driving to a nearby mountain, parking at the base, and hiking up to watch a scenic sunset.
The trio successfully enjoyed the sunset before heading back home.
The vehicle veered left, and an over-correction caused it to flip and roll repeatedly.
The 19-year-old described her current health condition in an interview with Inside Edition on YouTube: “I wasn’t on the ground, I was actually hanging in the power line by my broken leg so all three of us were thrown out, and I was hanging up there.”
Kennedy explained that she didn’t bleed out because the power line pinched off the main artery in her leg, and the main artery in her arm was cauterized by the electric shock.
Despite this, she was still drowning in her own blood.
They also had to reposition her bone during the rescue.
“I think it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around it, I can’t remember if I said it in my mind or actually said it,” she began to explain.
“But I remember feeling like saying ‘thank you for trying to save my life but this is it for me’, and I remember like closing my eyes and just, done.”
He kissed her forehead and blessed her, despite medics informing him that she might not survive.
After being airlifted to the University of Utah, she learned the extent of her injuries.
Doctors were unable to save her leg and performed five amputations in an attempt to preserve as much of it as possible.
“They tried taking it at my knee, like through my knee and this process is hard because my leg just kept rotting because the bone was broken so high up, that they just were like trying to keep as much as possible.”
Fortunately for her passengers, none of them lost a limb, but Kennedy ultimately had her leg amputated at the bone—a significant challenge for a 16-year-old at the time.
Despite the difficulties, she feels grateful for the experience.
She said: “I would go through it all again just to have that rewarding feeling and feeling like I made a difference in someone’s life.”
