'She had such a lot to look forward to'

Vicki Reading, aged 20, was a passenger in a head-on collision on the A38 at Coombe Hill, Near Tewkesbury, on Sunday.

The driver, her close friend Carl Hawkins, was also pronounced dead at the scene.

Her parents Charles and Dee described her as a "popular and bubbly girl" and said she would be "deeply missed".

"She was loved by everyone and had a very wide circle of friends," they said.

"She was well-liked and everyone always talked highly of her.

"She was so loved by everybody and she had no malice in her at all."

Former Nunnery Wood High School pupil Vicki had taken a year out after her first year at Worcester Sixth Form College and had been deciding what to do next.

"She was a crossroads in her life," said her parents, from Otley Close, Warndon.

"She was no longer a schoolgirl - she was becoming a young lady.

"She was going through a transitional period. She was growing up, gaining experience of life and living to the fullest every day.

"She'd got such a lot to look forward to.

"Her philosophy was: 'I've got a life to live and I want to live it. I will live each day to the fullest.' "

Vicki, a talented artist who had won a competition to design a sweatshirt for department store BHS and created a poster for the Fire Service, also enjoyed car mechanics.

"She did enjoy tinkering with the mechanics of cars. She said it was her main hobby and she had become quite knowledgeable," said her dad, Charles.

Vicki's brother Andy Duncan said she would be missed by many young people throughout the city.

"She always had a mobile phone in her hands and had worn out three keypads on it," he said.

"She made friends very easily and liked to hang out with her mates at pubs, clubs and barbecues."

He revealed that Vicki's friends had already set up a web page at www.novadrive.co.uk for friends to write their own tributes.

"I think the comments on there speak for themselves," he said.

"She touched a lot of people and she will be missed by so many."