Terrified and utterly disorientated after flipping her car into a ditch, Valerie Hawkett found herself stranded with absolutely no idea where she was.

After managing to pull herself and her four-year-old daughter free from the vehicle, she called the police. But she could not be seen from the road and was unable to direct them to the scene.

Incredibly, officers were able to pinpoint her exact location using new technology that assigns three random words to every 3m X 3m square on the planet.

As such, after being sent the relevant web link, the words “weekend foggy earphones” led officers straight to the scene - a field on the A36 heading out of Norton St Philip, Somerset.

The geocoding system, called What3Words has divided the world into 57 trillion squares, each of which has its own unique address.

Avon and Somerset Police were among the first in the UK to pilot the technology last year and Ms Hawkett, 33, and her daughter are believed to be the first rescued with it.