Ann Skipp fought back tears as she described Debbie Porter as a "wonderful daughter and mother" who would put herself out for anyone.

She died when she lost control of her Suzuki Vitara 4x4 on the A628 between Silkstone and Dodworth, Barnsley, and collided with a tree last December.

Debbie suffered a fractured skull on impact, and died later at Barnsley District General Hospital.

Today Ann said she wanted the tree to be cut down.

"It's already taken two lives so it would be good if we could save someone else's in the future," she said. "Debbie was a beautiful daughter and a wonderful mother. She was loving and caring and bubbly."

The 42-year-old cleaner, from Thurgoland, left an 11-year-old daughter, Lucy, and her partner of six years Craig Wragg, who has been undergoing his own personal battle having treatment for a brain tumour.

The crash, near the entrance to Silkstone Golf Club, was the second fatal accident to occur at the spot. In September 2001 another motorist was killed after colliding with the same tree.

PC Adrian Burgoyne, from the collision investigation branch of South Yorkshire Police, told a Sheffield inquest police records showed someone else had been seriously injured, and seven others slightly injured, at the same location.

The court heard from two eye-witnesses who said the weather conditions on the night of Debbie's crash were terrible, with lashing rain and howling winds.

PC Burgoyne said it was not possible to calculate how fast Debbie had been travelling because road markings were washed away in the rain, but said an application was underway to reduce the speed limit to 50mph on the stretch.

A post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a fractured skull. Assistant deputy coroner Donald Coutts-Wood recorded an accidental death verdict.

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