Parents’ heartbreak as student dies days after starting course
A PROMISING Scots student has been killed in a horror road accident days after starting a university course in England.
George Crawford died in hospital after being knocked down by a car in Newport, Shropshire, at 4.10am on Sunday.
Mr Crawford, 20, a talented horseman from Melrose, Roxburghshire, had only begun studying agriculture at Newport’s Harper Adams University ten days before the accident.
His parents, Mary and Cameron Crawford, yesterday said they were ‘completely heartbroken’ and appealed for information about the collision.
Mr Crawford told the Scottish Sun: ‘George lived 20 full years. Most people wouldn’t achieve half of what he got through. He was a credit to his family, his school, former college and new college.
‘George was a multi-talented sportsman – a pony race champion, and he was in the racing jockey club as a junior. He rode for Scotland at eventing.’
Mr Crawford, 51, said his son was also proud of his sister, Lucinda, who is the national under-18s eventing champion. He added: ‘George would brighten up the dullest of rooms. To end it this way is devastating but we want to keep his memory alive.’
Mr Crawford was fatally injured during a collision at a junction. A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘Ambulance