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Taylor Swift Concert Bracelets Save Teens' Lives After Car Crash
Taylor Swift is glad to hear the Dazzio sisters and their friend are OK (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)
Three teens say the bracelets they got from a Taylor Swift concert saved their lives after a car crash on their way home.Elizabeth Dazzio was driving her sister Christine and a friend home from Taylor Swift's concert in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last Friday when she fell asleep at the wheel and the car crashed into a pole and some nearby trees. Elizabeth was knocked unconscious and the other two girls were trapped as smoke began to fill the car. "I was just thinking we need to get out of this car," Christine told WBRZ on Wednesday.
The two cell phones they had at hand were dead (isn't annoying how fast your battery drains at concerts?!), so Christine and her friend improvised. As a makeshift distress beacon, the girls tapped the bracelets they got from the Swift concert against the window, making them light up. Eventually, a woman did pull over and help. "She could tell that there was someone in the car," from the flashing lights, said Christine. The woman and her companion pulled the girls out and called for help.
At the concert, the bracelets were programmed to light up with the music.
"That's really fast thinking," said Elizabeth, grateful for her younger sister and her friend. "They did so much in that situation... I kind of owe it to them to get me to the hospital as soon as they did.
On Thursday, Taylor Swift tweeted that she was glad to hear the girls made it out okay:
Elizabeth Dazzio is expected to be released from the hospital soon.
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