AN OXFORD University graduate who died in a car crash near Banbury was a young doctor who had just started her medical career.

Dr Margaret Davidson, 26, from Oxford, was killed in the head-on crash at Deddington, last Thursday morning.

Dr Davidson, the only daughter of Elizabeth and Joe Davidson, from Hamilton in Lanarkshire, Scotland, graduated in medicine last year from Green College, Oxford.

Dr Davidson recently started her first doctor's position at the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Dr Davidson's car was in collision with a Vauxhall Nova on the A4260. An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.