A teenager who was left hanging by her broken leg on a power line has explained why it took an hour to save her.

At just 16-years-old, Kennedy Littledike lost her leg after a car crash while out with her friends.

She was driving home in 2021 when she became emotional about her recent break up, started crying and lost control of her vehicle. The Idaho teen pulled the wheel as the car started to veer left but ended up over-correcting it.

Littledike explained to Inside Edition: "I went off the road on the right side. 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.”

Littledike flew 30 feet into the air, with her arm tearing backwards and ‘hanging on by the skin on [her] back’ while her upper thigh snapped over the wire and hung in front of her face.

Despite these wild injuries, she didn’t quite realise just how badly she’d been hurt until she was freed and taken to hospital.

But while first responders worked to retrieve her from the power line, it took quite some time.