Crash death woman named (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

The woman who died in a crash on the A436 near Andoversford named as Karen Hood from Overbrook, Naunton

10:41am Tuesday 24th March 2009 in News By Andy Woolfoot

A COTSWOLD woman who died following an accident near Andoversford has been named as Karen Hood from Overbrook, Naunton.

The Gloucestershire Coroners Service confirmed this morning that it was the 48-year-old, who is believed to be a teacher in Cheltenham, who died at the scene of the accident just after 8am on Wednesday, March 18.

Mrs Hood’s teenage children, a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, were in the Audi and both suffered sever injuries after the accident.

They were taken to Gloucester Royal Hospital and Cheltenham Royal Hospital respectively but later they were both moved to specialist head-injury unit Frenchay Hospital in Bristol.

A police spokesman said yesterday that the girl regained consciousness yesterday but is suffering from life-altering injuried. The boy is expected to make a full recovery.

The inquest into Mrs Hood’s death was opened yesterday.

A spokesman for the coroner’s office said: "A motor car pulled out of a junction on the Audi’s nearside causing it to swerve into the path of an oncoming lorry and serious collision occurred."