A YOUNG student died after a three-car crash on the B3004 at Passfield last Thursday. Robyn-Ellen France, 18, a student from Fleet, was killed when her green Vauxhall Corsa collided with a blue BMW and then seconds later with a red Peugeot 306, travelling in the opposite direction, at the junction of Hollywater Road and Headley Road last Thursday night, April 5, just before 8pm. The 32-year-old driver of the BMW was arrested and taken to Alton Police Station where he was questioned and bailed to return in June. The Peugeot driver received minor injuries. One of the first people to arrive on the scene was Dawn Hoskins, of Arundel Close, in Passfield, who said: "We were all in the house when we heard a horrific car-crash sound. I ran through the small woods between us and the road and found the car on the pavement facing in the direction of Lindford. "The car looked like it had been hit, about the same impact front and back, and it can only have been about two-and-a-half feet wide after the impacts. "I saw a young girl who was in desperate need of assistance. I went over to the car and saw another lady sitting with the girl holding her head. "I noticed the air bag hadn't deployed. "The girl was unconscious when I arrived and badly injured. We had to move her head to keep her airways open and we kept talking to her." Mrs Hoskins, who studies law in London, said: "We looked for ID or a phone so that we could contact her family because if it was my child I would want to know as soon as possible what had happened. "I did do training with St John Ambulance 15 years ago and it really helped. It's the basics you remember, like checking the environment and being ready to do mouth to mouth and so on. I was concentrating on her chest rising and falling to make sure she was still breathing. "So many people stopped to help her, but we all felt so helpless. "This was so tragic and made worse because it took so long for the ambulance to arrive. A paramedic was on the scene quite quickly, but he couldn't do a lot. She needed to get to hospital quickly. I know we have chosen to live out in the sticks, but we feel we should have the right to an ambulance in four minutes. My thoughts are with the family now. I am a Christian and Easter should be a happy time of celebration. Instead, this young girl's life has just been snuffed out for no reason." Miss France was taken to the Royal Surrey County Hospital, in Guildford, where doctors tried to save her, but she died of her injuries at 1pm on Friday. Mrs Hoskins, 38 and a mother of three, was angry about the fact there were no lights or bollards at the junction where the accident happened and called for the council to make the junction safer. "I want people to realise that this was an accident waiting to happen," she said. "I believe the accident could have been avoided if there had been pavements and street lights around the junction and it's a shame that it takes something horrific like this to happen before something is done." Miss France was a student at the Royal Hollaway campus, of London University, in Egham and was studying for media studies degree. More than 200 messages were left by friends and relatives on her website at facebook.co.uk. Cards and flowers (pictured below) were also left at the site of the crash. Messages expressed sadness at the loss of a beautiful young woman who would be missed. The road was closed for five hours while accident investigators studied the scene. Anyone with information should contact police on 0845 0454545, quoting Operation Wessex.
