A MUM-OF-ONE was killed in a crash on a South Oxfordshire road after losing control of her car, an inquest heard yesterday.

Marta Johnston, 27, died on the A329 near Great Milton in April.

Oxfordshire Coroner’s Court heard her black Ford Focus skidded on a bend in the road, crashing into an oncoming black VW Golf.

Ms Johnston, of Edmond Gardens in High Wycombe, was travelling to Didcot for a meeting with a charity for which she volunteered.

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She was taken by air ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital, where she died the next day. A post-mortem examination showed she died from multiple injuries.

In a statement read out at the inquest, Catherine Roe, who was driving the other car involved with her daughter and friend, both 12, said she was travelling within the 50mph speed limit.

She said: “I saw a car coming towards me taking up the middle of the carriageway. I didn’t have any time to react as it came so quickly towards me.”

Ms Roe and her passengers suffered only minor injuries and another driver called 999.

Collision investigator Stephan Moffat told the inquest the crash probably resulted from a driver error but did not believe Ms Johnston was speeding.

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