By Leah Mcdonald For Dailymail.com
Published: 16:24 BST, 15 June 2019 | Updated: 17:00 BST, 15 June 2019
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A mother used a phone tracking app to find her daughter who was trapped in her car after it fell 25 feet down the side of a mountain.
Catrina Cramer Alexander, from North Carolina, resorted to the Find My Friends app to locate her 17-year-old daughter Macy Smith after she missed curfew and did not respond to texts or calls from her family.
Smith was driving on Pilot Knob Park Road in Surry County, near U.S. 52, on the afternoon of June 7. She said she was on her way to see a friend and it had been raining heavily that day.
However it turned out that Smith that her vehicle hydroplaned, and fell 25 feet down an embankment and flipped free times.
Macy Smith's car fell down an embankment and flipped three times as she was driving along a road on Pilot Mountain on June 7. She is pictured here with her mother Catrina Cramer Alexander, (left)
The teenager shared images of her white car, which was totaled in the crash after flipping over
In a Facebook post, she described how lucky she felt as she heard her family call her name, after she was pinned under the vehicle for seven hours.
She said: 'Almost 24 hours ago I was lying in a ditch 20 yards off the road for the 7th hour with my arm pinned under my car. I will never forget the sound of my