A teenager killed in a head-on smash had passed his driving test only three weeks earlier.

Today, family and friends paid tribute to 19-year-old Oliver Dean, who died from massive internal injuries. Two other people were also killed in the crash.

Oliver, an apprentice plumber and heating engineer at Keighley College, was returning from a night out with friends in his mum's Vauxhall Astra when it was in a collision with a Honda Civic at Hollins Hill, Baildon.

The Honda driver, Dorothy Jones, 71, of Springs Lane, Ilkley, an advanced driver, and her back seat passenger Muriel Metcalfe, 77, of Bradford Road, Menston, both died of multiple injuries.

Mrs Jones's husband Norman, 71, was hurt in the crash, which happened as they returned home from a dance in Shipley. He was said to be in a satisfactory condition at Bradford Royal Infirmary today.

Oliver, a former Salts Grammar School pupil was on his way to meet his girlfriend of four years, Emma Spencer, when the crash happened at 11pm last Thursday.

All four occupants in the Astra were taken to the hospital, but Oliver died three hours later.

Front seat passenger Matthew Cook and back seat passenger Steven Field escaped serious injury. Kirwin Daniels, also travelling in the back, is understood to have had surgery on his legs.

Oliver's mum Elaine, of Thornton, Bradford, said she rushed to BRI as soon as one of Oliver's friends broke the news.

"He had broken legs and ribs, a fractured pelvis and punctured lungs," she said. "The staff at BRI were really good and did everything they could for him.

"They said he never stopped breathing and his heart was beating, but his blood pressure was not going up because he was bleeding internally. He was a fighter and never gave up.

"I kissed him goodbye when he went to theatre and he never came back." She added that Oliver had loved driving and was always asking permission to borrow her car.

She said: "He was full of life and everybody knew him. He wouldn't let his friends want for anything if they were in trouble. We were told he was going to be student of the year.

"I don't want people to think he was joyriding. He was with his friends in my car which he was insured for. He had a lot of experience driving and drove a van at work."

Oliver moved to Thornton Road from Saltaire with his mum, dad Bernard, a retired health service worker, and sisters Charlotte, 15 and Fiona, ten, in 1999.

Emma, 19, of Coach Road, Saltaire, said everybody knew Oliver inn the village where he used to live and loved him.

"He was full of life," she said. "He would walk in the room and the whole atmosphere would change."