A mother asked her teenage daughter how she was coping with driving in snowy conditions – and got a picture of the car lying on its roof in a field.
Amy Emslie, 17, from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, slid on ice and came off the road shortly after passing her driving test.
Thankfully, the schoolgirl was unhurt apart from a few bruises.
Amy Emslie, 17, (left, in an undated photo) from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, slid on ice and came off the road shortly after passing her driving test. Pictured right is her car upturned in a field on January 25
Shortly afterwards, her mother, on holiday abroad, texted to ask ‘How you getting on driving in the snow?’
Miss Emslie responded with two images of the written off Vauxhall Corsa and the message: ‘Not great actually mum x.’
The hilariously understated post has attracted over 9,000 retweets and has been liked over 65,000 times.
The accident happened on January 25 as Miss Emslie was driving her car to school.
Miss Emslie, who lives with her father, decided not to contact her mother with news of the crash in case it spoiled her break.
Numerous social media users sympathised with Miss Emslie, including Ellie Chambers, who wrote: ‘Me when I learn to drive.’
Shortly afterwards Ms Emslie’s mother, on holiday abroad, texted to ask ‘How you getting on driving in the snow?’
Ms Emslie responded with two images of the written off Vauxhall Corsa and the message: ‘Not great actually mum x’
Courtney Laskey said: ‘Is that me or what? My car as well.’
Olivia Holden tagged Eden Footes and said: ‘Eden before I even saw you retweet this I literally thought of u straight away.’
Ms Emslie (pic) said today: ‘My mum had been on holiday for the past week and so I hadn’t told her about the crash’
An American, Bradley Emerson, weighed in with a dig at British drivers, writing: ‘Do y’all not know how to drive in other countries damn?’
Ms Emslie said today: ‘My mum had been on holiday for the past week and so I hadn’t told her about the crash.
‘So it was ironic when she texted me asking how my driving had been getting on.’
She added: ‘I hadn’t realised how icy the roads were that morning and it was the first corner I’d came to. As I was going round the corner I hit black ice.
‘The car skidded to the right hand side of the road first and then spun and skidded back to the left.
‘It felt like it was going in slow motion when it was happening. I just was thinking how much I wanted it to stop, and I couldn’t believe that I’d actually just crashed my car.
‘The car has been written off, I’m gutted as I live in the countryside and hadn’t been passed for very long.’
Ms Emslie (pic in undated photos) added: ‘I hadn’t realised how icy the roads were that morning and it was the first corner I’d came to. As I was going round the corner I hit black ice’