Family's tributes to crash victim

TRIBUTES have flooded in for a young woman who died in a car accident.

Rachael Veale, 21, died in Devon when the car she was travelling in hit a tree.

Rachael was studying medicine at the Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, but grew up in Seaford.

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Her brother Chris, 23, who lives in Seaford , said: 'Rachael was a beautiful and intelligent individual who filled our life with joy and wanted for nothing but to help others.

'It was her wish that as many people as possible should carry donor cards but was tragically unable to help as she would have liked.

'As an angel from heaven, she would implore anyone reading this to think about carrying such a card so that such a terrible loss would not be in vain.'

Her parents said in a statement, that Rachael was a keen sportswoman, playing netball, tennis and swimming competitively for Lewes Swimming Club.

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She had also been active as a community volunteer and had a keen interest in the arts.

One of Rachael's former teacher's contacted the Express to pay tribute to a 'delightful child'.

Heather Baldwin, of Blue Haze Avenue, Seaford, taught Rachael when she was in Year 6 at Seaford Primary School.

She said: 'I was her teacher in primary and had a really good relationship with her and her family.

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'She was a delightful child, as everybody has said, she was lovely, always smiling, an absolute pleasure to teach.

'She was one of those children who really did make teaching very worthwhile.

'It is an absolute tragedy that a young lady who had such as zest for life has lost hers.'

Rachael was in the car with four friends at the time she died, a second female passenger remains in a critical condition and two other women are recovering.

The male driver escaped serious injury.

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