THE GRIEF-stricken mother of a teenager killed in a motorway accident in Perthshire yesterday described him as “the most wonderful son you could ever want.”

Scott Whyte (17), of Dalhousie Road in Broughty Ferry, was involved in a single-vehicle crash on the M90 on Tuesday afternoon.

Yesterday relatives were trying to come to terms with the sudden loss of a young man who had “so many plans for his future.”

His stunned mother Karen said, “Scott was very popular and very outgoing, very cheerful and had no enemies.

“He was in his second year, going into his third year, of an apprenticeship as a gas and central heating engineer with WRB.

“At the time it happened he was driving to pick up the young apprentices from Lauder College, as he had been doing every day. He had so many plans for his future. It’s such a blow.”

Scott was driving a Peugeot 306 estate car south on the M90, near Bridge of Earn, at around 3 pm when the accident occurred.

Police said that the car left the road, hit the central reservation and collided with a bridge parapet. Emergency services attended but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A former pupil of Grove Academy, Scott was a member of the Next Generation health and fitness club outside Dundee.

Karen added, “He was the most wonderful son that any mother could ever want. He was perfect to me.”

Scott is also survived by his father Ross Moir, grandparents George and Marion and 19-year-old sister Jenny.

WRB Gas office manager Philip Martin said yesterday, “Scott was a very likeable lad who got on well with all his colleagues and always had a smile on his face.

“He was going into the third year of his apprenticeship and was very keen to learn.

“He will be sorely missed by everyone, and our thoughts are with his family.”