TRIBUTES have been pouring in to popular student, Oliver Davey, 17, who was killed when he was thrown from a car which crashed near Trowbridge at the weekend.

Ollie, as he was known to his many friends, who had just completed his AS-level exams at St John's School in Marlborough, lived at Coate near Devizes.

He had been staying with friends in the Trowbridge area. He died when a Renault Clio car in which he was travelling with three other young men and a woman left the road at 3.50am on Saturday.

Police said it appeared that he was thrown from the car as it rolled over after failing to negotiate a bend at Ashton Common.

PC George Rabczak said it appeared that the driver may have lost control as the car went into a right hand bend.

Ollie died at the scene. The other occupants escaped with minor injuries and shock.

His death has left fellow students at St John's School stunned.

Headteacher Patrick Hazlewood said: "We are all deeply shocked. It was so tragic. Here was a young man making his way in life. "It has had an enormous impact on all of those in the school who knew him."

Counselling was made available at the Marlborough school to help students come to terms with the tragedy.

Ollie had previously been a pupil at Warminster School and had made many friends there.

He had gone to St John's School after leaving Woodborough Primary School, but went away to Warminster School for two years before transferring back to the Marlborough comprehensive to do his A-levels.

His parents divorced several years ago, but Ollie and his younger brother, Jack, 14, continued to live in Woodborough with their mother, Jill Hibberd.

A district nurse, she has worked from the Pewsey surgery for many years.

Jack also attends St John's School.

The family moved to Coate recently after Ollie's mother married farmer Richard Hibberd. Ollie and Jack's father now lives in Derbyshire.

Ollie's mother said she had been touched by the number of his friends who had called to express their sorrow, including one of the other boys involved in the accident.

Ollie was brought up in the village of Woodborough where he went to the village school. His mother said he was an outward going teenager who always enjoyed life to the very full.

She said: "He will be remembered very much for his love of extreme sports, BMX riding and roller blading.

"He loved things like that and was not at all a football person."

He was also keen on rap and hip-hop music.

With his family, Ollie had travelled extensively and visited the USA and Canada.

His mother recalled: "He liked to say he had roller-bladed in Boston."

She said Ollie loved being with people and was a very sociable teenager.

"His greatest joy was being with his friends," she said.

As a boy he was a Beaver and a Cub and he particularly enjoyed going away to camp.

He was also a good swimmer and was a former member of the Pewsey Swimming Club.

Ollie had also been a member of the Shak youth club at Pewsey at one time and especially enjoyed its BMX and skating facilities.

Mrs Hibberd said he had been planning a media career and had an ambition to become a radio journalist.

He had recently visited Bath College, where he was planning to join a media course and eventually take a diploma in media studies.

The funeral will take place on Tuesday, at St Mary's Church, in Bishops Cannings at 2.30pm.

The Wiltshire Coroner, David Masters, opened an inquest in Swindon yesterday.

It was adjourned to a date to be fixed.