By Lara Keay For Mailonline
Published: 09:25 GMT, 13 February 2019 | Updated: 09:25 GMT, 13 February 2019
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Gemma Fairweather, 38 (pictured) and her daughter Martha, 7, were driving home from Lowestoft to Wymondham in Norfolk late on Sunday night when their car crashed
A mother and daughter left stranded after their car crashed were saved when a teenage boy found them on Snapchat.
Gemma Fairweather, 38, and her daughter Martha, 7, were driving home from Lowestoft to Wymondham in Norfolk late on Sunday night.
As they drove down a dark country lane a sharp, blind bend saw them veer off the road and tumble down an embankment.
With the car on its side they were trapped inside the vehicle and despite calling her boyfriend Graham Potts and the emergency services for help - no one could find them in the dark.
It was only when Mr Potts's 15-year-old son Sam looked them up on Snapchat that they were rescued.
Sam used the app's Snap Map tool, which found the pair's precise location so police and ambulance could get them out of the ditch.
Ms Fairweather said she was too scared to get out of the vehicle because her daughter was trapped on her side.
She said: 'They couldn't find us, it was my boyfriend's son who found us on Snapchat.
'We were down in the ditch out of sight and everybody kept driving past us because it
