Idaho Teen on Losing Leg After Surviving Car Crash That Left Her Hanging From Power Line for an Hour

Kennedy Littledike from Nampa, Idaho , survived a terrifying car accident in 2021. The crash came as she was struggling to work through a hard breakup.

“I was emotional. I was a girl,” she tells Inside Edition Digital. “And so my two best friends at the time, they were like, ‘Hey, let’s go do something fun today to keep your mind off everything.’”

Kennedy, then 16, and her friends drove to a mountain near her house to watch the sunset. Then the teens headed home.

“I can’t remember what made me start crying again,” she says. “Everyone’s like, you should have pulled over. Yea, I would’ve. But it was so abrupt and happened so quickly.”

Kennedy realized what was happening as her car began veering off the road to the left.

“I overcorrected too far, and I went off the road on the right side,” she says. “My side of the vehicle hit the power pole, and we started flipping and rolling. 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.”

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