A TEENAGE motorist who died in a car crash was “driving just a little too fast for her own capabilities” on a wet road, a coroner ruled.

Oxford High School student Olivia Jefferies’ Peugeot 107 veered into an oncoming car in Adderbury on June 12 and ended up in a ditch.

An inquest at Oxfordshire Corner Court yesterday heard the 18-year-old, above, from Twyford, near Banbury, was killed instantly in the crash at about 11pm.

Miss Jefferies was on her way home from visiting boyfriend Ben Martinez in Bicester when her car left the B4100 near the Katharine House Hospice. He told the hearing she was “happy as anything” as she drove off at about 10.30pm.

Pathologist Dr Ian Roberts said the teenager suffered multiple injuries.

Collision investigator Paul Thomas said Miss Jefferies’ car slid out of control on a left-hand bend and into the path of Darron Cullen’s oncoming Ford Focus as a result of “excessive steering, excessive speed or a combination of the two”.

The Peugeot’s speedometer was stuck at 41mph, possibly indicating the car’s speed on impact, Mr Thomas said. The speed limit was 40mph.

Coroner Nicholas Gardiner recorded a verdict of accidental death and said: “It appears to me that Olivia Jefferies was driving just a little too fast for her own capabilities, bearing in mind the nature of the road, particularly it was a wet evening.”