A HAMPSHIRE school governor and classroom assistant died in a horror crash on a busy main road.

Mary Gray, 54, was killed when the car in which she was a passenger collided with another vehicle in Cambridgeshire.

The governor and classroom assistant at Stanmore Primary School in Winchester was in a silver Vauxhall Zafira, which was being driven by a 17-year-old Winchester man.

The crash happened on the A10 Meldreth bypass at Frog End just after midday on Saturday.

The driver of the other car, a blue Peugeot 206, was also killed in the crash. He was named as John Faint, a 51-year-old from Sawston near Cambridge.

Tributes have been paid to Mrs Gray, 54, of Honeysuckle Close, Badger Farm.

Patrick Davies, the acting chairman of governors at Stanmore Primary School, said the news was "a terrible shock".

"One just feels devastated, first and foremost for the family but also for everyone in the Stanmore Primary School community," he said.

"She was one of those people who was absolutely irreplaceable. She was totally reliable for any task that needed doing. You could always ask her and rely on Mary. She would always do what needed to be done and she was brilliant. She was known to absolutely everybody and everybody knew and liked her."

Keith Crate, the former chairman of governors at Stanmore Primary said that Mrs Gray would be "sadly missed".

"She was always very committed to the school. She's been there quite a few years and she was always very supportive and highly involved in going on school trips and everything else."

The 17-year-old Vauxhall driver and his other passengers, a 50-year-old man and a boy also both from Winchester, were taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge along with a passenger from the Peugeot for treatment.

The A10 was closed for several hours as police launched an investigation.

The stretch of road where the accident happened is known as a dangerous one where a motorcyclist died after colliding with a bus last month.