A TEENAGER was killed after the car in which she was a passenger went out of control and turned over, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Katherine Davies, 16, of Downs Manor, Bromyard, suffered a broken neck in the accident on a right hand bend at Great Witley.

The prosecution allege that James Fisher, 19, was driving his Rover Metro too fast for a winding country road and was not concentrating.

The car careered on to the wrong side of the road, veered back to its correct side, hit a hedge and rolled over, said prosecutor William Rickarby.

Fisher and two passengers - Luke Mackay and Robert Frost - who were all going to a nightclub in Hereford, clambered out covered in blood.

But Miss Davies died instantly in the front passenger seat.

Fisher, of Frenchlands, Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, denies causing death by dangerous driving on the B4197 Martley to Great Witley road on September 22 last year.

Amy Weddell-Hall was driving towards her home in Martley with her boyfriend when she saw Fisher's car lights on her side of the road.

The car was travelling "far too fast", she said. It swerved as it went past.

Another motorist Michael Grey told how he found the upturned Metro on the grass verge after it had passed him showering sparks.

He looked for Miss Davies but the car was partly in a ditch, making the search in the dark difficult.

The trial continues.