Emmerdale viewers mock 'laughable' scene in which Rhona SURVIVES impalement by ...

A somewhat ridiculous series of events unraveled during Thursday night's Emmerdale - eventually leading to the character Rhona Goskirk learning she couldn't have children.

Yet the rigmarole she had to go through to learn about this was, according to viewers, laughable.

Soap fans watched the veterinarian [played by Zoe Henry] get impaled after a flying hay-bale landed on her thanks to her boyfriend, Pete Barton [Anthony Quinlan], smashing a tractor, without brakes, into the barn.

Rhona was seen on one side of the hay-bales, calling Pete, who was careening the farmyard vehicle toward the outhouse.

She called him, unaware he was outside, which he answered. Before she could utter a word, Pete dropped his phone in order to swerve away from Matty Barton [Ash Palmisciano] who was strolling into the path of the tractor with a wheelbarrow.

Pete tried to stop the tractor - but, adding to the inconvenience, it had been signed off that morning at a MOT, despite the brakes not actually working.

The vehicle ended up smashing through the barn wall, into the towering bales, which fell onto Rhona, knocking her backwards.

She landed on a metal spike and started to bleed profusely, her phone flying out of her hand and out of reach.

In a bizarre move, Pete and Matty decided that was an apt time to pop the kettle on, clearly shaken by the incident.

Unaware Pete's girlfriend had suffered at the hands of the brake-less tractor, the duo headed inside for a brew.

Only when Pete put two-and-two together over the beverage did he dash back out to the barn to discover Rhona, unconscious, potentially bleeding to death.