Lasting tribute to young doctor

8:03am Tuesday 27th March 2007

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The mother of a young doctor killed by a speeding driver visited a hospital room in Oxford which is being named in her memory.

Dr Margaret Davidson, 26, was killed when teenager Nolan Haworth crashed head-on into her car last May, on the A4260 near Deddington.

The graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford, was returning home to Kidlington after working a night shift at Banbury's Horton Hospital, when the crash happened on the brow of a hill.

Haworth, 19, of Ribston Close, Banbury, admitted causing Dr Davidson's death by dangerous driving, and was jailed for four years in September.

The teenager was driving without a licence, in a borrowed car with no insurance.

Dr Davidson's mother Elizabeth travelled from her home in Hamilton, Scotland, to Oxford today to visit the George Pickering education unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington where a room has been named after her daughter.

She is also visiting St Hilda's College, where her daughter's ashes are buried, to discuss the site for a memorial bench.

Mrs Davidson, 63, told the Oxford Mail: "We were so touched when we found out the room was being named by the hospital in memory of Margaret because it shows the high esteem they held my daughter in. We had numerous letters from colleagues to say she was just the kind of girl you wanted to meet after a tough day."

Peter Terrington, 35, who was Dr Davidson's fiancé at the time of her death, added: "This is a lovely accolade for Margaret."

Mrs Davidson added: "Margaret had worked extremely hard to become a doctor and came to Oxford after studying in Hamilton.

"She put in six years training and I understand she had the potential to be a very good doctor.

"I will keep talking about this because we need to keep people aware of the carnage on the roads.

"I want to remind people that someone with so much potential was killed on that day, and it could happen to other people.

"As a doctor, Margaret had so much to give, and that potential has gone. A light was switched out."

Mrs Davidson said she and her husband Joseph, 62, were also planning to start a bursary at Margaret's comprehensive school in Hamilton, to help other pupils fulfil their potential.