A teenager walked away with a few scratches after his car crashed off the road and ended up upside down in a river. Vicky Renshow said her son was driving to work at around 7am on Friday when he "lost the back end of the car" on an "awful stretch of the road".
Vicky said: "He basically lost the back of his car, and lost control of the car and just pulled on itself straight into River Erewash. It was absolutely fine until he hit the Erewash when the car rolled into it. He was then upside down in the Erewash.
"He was lucky, ridiculously lucky because the passenger window smashed from the impact. He then managed to climb out of the passenger window - it was a very small gap.
"He managed to do that while the car was obviously flooded with water. If you look at the photo, you think that is a fatality right there", she added. "I genuinely do not understand how he got up, got out and walked away."
Ms Renshow said her son flagged down a woman who was passing by, who called the emergency services, reports NottinghamshireLive.
"I am just so grateful to this woman", the mum added. "I do not know her name but I want to say thank you. She was a knight in shining armour because if you had not got out the way in which you look at that road, you probably would not have noticed he was even there."
The mum, who was away at the time of the accident, said she rushed straight home after getting a call from her sister-in-law. "I did a lot of crying. It was the longest journey of my life", she said.
"I knew he was okay, but until I had physically seen him I could not settle. I was stressed out and emotional.
"I was desperate to see him in person. However much someone says to you, it does not put that worry out of your mind until you have seen them."
She added: "He has come out with a couple of scratches on his hands, shock - and that's it. Completely walked away from it."
The red car in River Erewash (Image: Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue)
