Tribute to car crash victim

The popular Pebsham Sports and Social Club member is thought to have been on a shopping trip when the accident happened.

"She was a lovely person. She would do anything for anyone," life-long friend Theresa Cox said this week.

Mrs Greenaway, 46, of Seabourne Road, died after her Peugeot was in collision with a van on Hastings seafront last Tuesday. Ironically, the van driver lives only a few hundred yards from her Seabourne Road home.

She leaves a daughter, Ceri, and son, Gavin.

Police are working to establish how the Peugeot came to be in the oncoming traffic lane.

Theresa Cox said at her Kinver Lane home: "I had known her since we were kids together. My mum and her mum knew each other years ago.

"We used to go to school together at the Down. We drifted apart; she got married, that sort of thing.

"I have lived her 21 years and she had lived round the corner for about 27. We gradually got to see each other again. For the last two years we have been really close because of personal reasons.

"She used to come round every Friday and Saturday night and we used to go down to the Pebsham club."

Wiping away the tears, she said: "I saw her on the Saturday night. I said 'See you in the week.' I was going to send her a text message on the Monday but didn't. Then on Tuesday her son told me she had been killed."

Speaking on behalf of the family, she said: "She was a really lovely person. So fun of fun.

"Everyone absolutely adored her down at the club. She would call a spade a spade...

"We laughed all the time. We had a joint party together at the club last November because our birthdays are close together. We all had such a laugh - and at Christmas and New Year's Eve."

Jean was known throughout Pebsham for the profusion of Christmas lights she put on her home. "They called them 'Jean's lights' round here."

The house was trashed from top to bottom in an attack my masked men last summer.

"She was just getting over that. She came round here in tears. For a while she was going to move away. I said I would miss her so much and she decided to stay. She wasn't going to let them drive her away.

"She was a strong person on the outside - but she was as soft as anything on the inside.

"She was a very careful driver. I can't believe that she's been killed in a car crash.

"I shall miss her so much. She was my best friend."