Taylor Swift bracelets 'saved teenagers' lives' after car crash

Taylor Swift performed in Baton Rouge last week before flying to Radio 1's Big Weekend in Norwich

Three Taylor Swift fans in America say flashing bracelets from the singer's concert helped to save their lives.

Elizabeth Dazzio was driving her sister Caroline and a friend home from a gig in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last Friday when she fell asleep at the wheel.

Her car crashed and she was knocked unconscious.

The three women were trapped inside until another driver spotted them waving their Taylor Swift bracelets and phoned emergency services.

"You could smell the gas and smoke," Caroline Dazzio told local TV news station WBRZ-TV. "I was just thinking we need to get out of this car."

Caroline says they had three mobile phones between them but two were dead and they couldn't find the other one.

The concert-goer also says no cars were stopping near the I-110/Scenic Highway exit where they'd crashed, so they decided to use their concert bracelets as emergency "flares".

They were programmed and synced to the beat of Taylor Swift's music and still worked.

Eventually a woman stopped, saying she'd seen the lights and knew someone was in trouble.

Swift also posted a link to the local news story in America

"She could tell that there was someone in the car," Caroline told WBRZ-TV.

The woman and a man with her helped pull the girls out before emergency services arrived at the crash scene.

Elizabeth Dazzio is expected to be released from the hospital soon.

Taylor Swift has since tweeted to say she's glad to hear the girls are doing well.

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