``Lol I'm gonna die,'' she wrote.

Less than an hour later, the 16-year-old's life ended when a speeding, drunk, angry and erratic young male driver rolled the car in which she was a passenger.

Ebony was thrown from the vehicle and fatally crushed.

The driver, Timothy Watson, 23, faced a pre-sentence hearing in the Victorian County Court yesterday. He has pleaded guilty to culpable driving over the crash at Nar Nar Goon last October.

Ebony's family and friends spoke of how they had been forever deprived of enjoyment with the young woman they loved, of how Ebony never got to celebrate her 17th birthday, or go to her debutante ball.

``Now to celebrate anything with her I take balloons and sit beside her grave,'' Ebony's mother, Helen Crichton, told the court.

``Ebony has missed out on a lifetime of life. The only thing Ebony did wrong was trust an adult.''

That adult was Watson who had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.139 and, according to other passengers, reached speeds of up to 180km/h before the crash. Shortly after sending her ominous text, Ebony had a final phone conversation with her friend, Amelia Campbell.

Ebony said she was with some guys who had been drinking and driving at 100km/h in a 40km/h zone.

Amelia told Ebony not to get back in the car if the driver was drinking and Ebony replied she wouldn't. But she did.