TODAY, Victoria Green (pictured) should have been picking up her A-level results and looking forward to a bright future at university.

Instead, her grieving parents Anthony and Frances, sister Kate, 21, and brother James, 16, are preparing for her funeral tomorrow.

Aged 18 of Yew Tree Cottage, Newcastle near Monmouth, the girl called Vicky by her family died in a car crash on August 8.

Her car was in a collision with a Castell Coaches bus full of day-trippers who had been to Hereford.

The crash happened on the A466 outside the old station at Tintern. An ambulance arrived within minutes, but the Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls pupil was pronounced dead at the scene.

Vicky's grieving mother Frances today told the Argus about the "bubbly girl who loved life".

Mrs Green said: "For the last two years her life concentrated on school and her A-levels (in physics, chemistry and geography) and getting work experience.

"Vicky was a quiet girl before she got to know you but when she did she would open up and was very bubbly and had a love of life.

"Many of the letters and kind words we have had from friends of Victoria also mentioned her lovely smile.

"She was exceedingly determined to do well in everything she did academically, in her running and lacrosse. Victoria will be dreadfully missed by us all." Her death has stunned the community in which she lived and flowers have been placed at the scene in her memory.

Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls headmistress Dr Brenda Despontin said Victoria was a girl "full of vitality" with a bright future ahead of her.

She said: "We are all deeply shocked and saddened by Vicky's tragic death. "She was a warm, friendly popular girl, always full of vitality and enthusiasm. "Her A-level results are due out today and she was looking forward to beginning a university course at Nottingham to study quarry management.

"Vicky had a successful future ahead of her and it is difficult for any of us to accept that she will not now fulfil these ambitions."

A Gwent Police spokeswoman said: "Investigations into the accident are still on going and we are still speaking to witnesses who have come forward to help."

The funeral service takes place tomorrow at St Mary's Priory Church in Monmouth at 11.30am followed by burial at Monmouth Cemetery.