--- title: Taylor Swift's Bracelets Help After Car Accident description: Teens who were in a car accident following a Taylor Swift's concert reportedly used light-up bracelets from the show to alert passersby. canonical: https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/ author: Esther Zuckerman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-29T16:44:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:26.444Z og:title: Taylor Swift's Bracelets Help After Car Accident og:description: Teens who were in a car accident following a Taylor Swift's concert reportedly used light-up bracelets from the show to alert passersby. og:url: https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d23f89169e0c875/69885235f887dcdf16e90af4/gettyimages-474984194.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2129 og:image:height: 1198 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings In New York - May 28, 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift's Bracelets Help After Car Accident twitter:description: Teens who were in a car accident following a Taylor Swift's concert reportedly used light-up bracelets from the show to alert passersby. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d23f89169e0c875/69885235f887dcdf16e90af4/gettyimages-474984194.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Swag Saves Lives > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Gardiner Anderson/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) Gardiner Anderson/Bauer-Griffin—GC Images by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 29, 2015 4:44 PM UTC Bracelets designed to create a nifty visual effect during Taylor Swift’s _1989_ tour are also apparently handy in emergency situations. Teens who were in a car accident following Swift’s concert in Baton Rouge, La., last week reportedly used the light-up bracelets to alert passersby to their circumstances after the crash, [according](http://www.wbrz.com/news/teens-say-taylor-swift-light-show-saved-them-in-wreck-after-concert) to WBRZ. A woman came to their aid after seeing the lights. “She could tell that there was someone in the car,” one of the passengers, Caroline Dazzio, told WBRZ. Swift herself tweeted out the story saying, “This is unreal.” > [](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/604017858570493952) The accident occurred after Elizabeth Dazzio, Caroline’s sister, fell asleep while driving. Avery Talbot—who describes herself as a friend of the teens, but who was not in the accident—explained how the situation unfolded on a blog post on Swift’s [website](http://taylorswift.com/users/nfec3EEx/blogs/6166182) via [_USA Today_](http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2015/05/28/teens-says-taylor-swifts-light-bracelets-saved-their-lives/): --- > “” --- Here is an example of the bracelets in action at a concert: > [](https://twitter.com/HowellOnCST/status/601935271622348801) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Swag Saves Lives","datePublished":"2015-05-29T16:44:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:26.444Z","description":"Light-up bracelets from the singer's concert were useful after a car accident, according to teens","url":"https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Taylor Swift","celebrity","1989"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d23f89169e0c875/69885235f887dcdf16e90af4/gettyimages-474984194.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Esther Zuckerman","jobTitle":"Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d23f89169e0c875/69885235f887dcdf16e90af4/gettyimages-474984194.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings In New York - May 28, 2015","caption":"Celebrity Sightings In New York - May 28, 2015","creditText":"Gardiner Anderson/Bauer-Griffin—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/","name":"Taylor Swift Swag Saves Lives"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","description":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/I8WlXTNY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-11T16:58:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/I8WlXTNY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/","duration":"PT35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3901517/taylor-swift-bracelets-teen-car-crash/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```