A British teen’s chin and jawbone were left hanging off her face by a tiny sliver of skin after a gruesome horseback riding accident, according to reports.

Emily Eccles, 15, smashed her head into a wooden post while riding in August near Baslow, Derbyshire, where her horse was spooked by a car’s exhaust system and galloped along a country path, The Sun reports.

Just seconds earlier, the Yorkshire teen’s feet had popped out of her stirrups as the horse sped off, flinging her to one side just before the moment of impact. She then recalled grabbing onto something red as she fell to the ground in a heap.

“I just looked down and I was like, ‘I don’t know what that is,’” Eccles, of Yorkshire, told the newspaper. “I just looked down and I could see teeth and bone and I said, ‘Is that my jaw?’”

The teen’s worst fears were soon realized, but her wounded face — which her doctors said had the worst injuries they’ve seen outside of a war zone — was later reconstructed during a five-plus-hour operation.

Eccles’ mother, Michelle, said she was astounded by her daughter’s recovery after initially getting the call that every parent dreads.

“I actually thought she’d died,” Michelle Eccles recalled of the shock from being told of her daughter’s ghastly injuries.

In all, Eccles’ jaw was rebuilt with three titanium plates and more than 160 stitches, The Telegraph reports.

Miraculously, the teen’s bandages were removed six days later, and she returned home after an 11-day hospital stay. Her once-prominent scars are also starting to fade, and she’s even considering getting back on a horse again, The Sun reports.

The surgeon at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Dr. Ricardo Mohammed-Ali, performed such a miracle on the teen that Eccles wrote Queen Elizabeth II to ask that he be considered for knighthood — a request that has been relayed through the proper channels, Sky News reports.

“Saving people’s lives and getting them back to normality definitely deserves some sort of recognition,” Eccles told the outlet.