I'm so happy to hear they are alright, and she handled things well.
So often teens are getting a bum rap on driving, but I too live in a rural area, and there are plenty of middle aged moms with their damn cell phones and SUV's,yacking away and aren't paying any mind to the road or their surroundings.
Heck when you get up onto the interstates, multiply them and the aggressive "yuppy men", and you'd swear your in some sort of road warrior war. The 2 that people blame the most, I find to be the lease of the problems,teens and truck drivers. Majority speaking, they are not the ones that are causing problems. Majority of problem causers are the middle aged man and women, usually with pricey cars,aggressive personalities, "me mes" and dudes with fancy pick up trucks, here on our rural roads, funny when they get all flustered when the tractors are going to their fields.
Okay, I rambled, but I must defend the majority of the teen drivers. I've driven up and down the east coast over the past 12 yrs. plus daily driving 50 to 100 miles, so I've seen a lot over my yrs, I'm 49, got my license 1974.
Well take care, again, I'm glad things weren't worse.