Kerry joins tragic list of new drivers
A Long Sutton teenager has been killed in a collision with a lorry on the A17.
Seventeen-year-old Kerry Ann Powell, of London Road, died at the scene just after 10.20am on Tuesday.
Kerry, who had recently passed her test, was driving a red Fiat Punto which was involved in a collision with a white Volvo cab and trailer at Terrington St Clement at the junction of Station Road, near the African Violet Centre.
She was taken to the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, at King's Lynn. The 39-year-old tractor driver was uninjured.
Kerry was a former student of Spalding High School where she completed her GCSEs last year.
She was working at Bliss Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy, in High Street, Sutton Bridge.
Kerry is the fourth inexperienced young driver to die on local roads in less than a year.
Spalding High School PE and geography teacher Jane Moss, who taught Kerry, paid tribute to the teenager.
Mrs Moss said: "It's terrible. Kerry was a lovely, lively girl. She was very popular and very friendly.
"She had a heart of gold and would do anything for anybody.
"It's very sad. Our thoughts are with her family."
Yesterday her parents were too distraught to comment.
Norfolk Police are appealing for anyone with information about the crash to contact the Swaffham Policing Unit on 0845 4564567.
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