ANOTHER family has been left to mourn the tragic loss of a young life following the fourth fatality in 14 months at a notorious accident blackspot on the A404 road between Amersham and High Wycombe.

Vicky Bishop, 16, was the latest victim to die on the notorious stretch of highway near Beamond End after a friend's car left the road and hit a tree.

Now, the Bucks Free Press is joining forces with the parents of all the youngsters who have lost their lives at the spot, to campaign for action to be taken on the dangerous road.

Vicky, who lived in New Road, Tylers Green, was on her way to a nightclub with two friends at around 10.30pm last Thursday when their blue Ford Fiesta left the road between Holmer Green and Penn Street.

Today, a horse-drawn carriage will take the former Holmer Green Upper School pupil on her last journey through Tylers Green (2pm) before a memorial service at St Margaret's C of E Church in Hammersley Lane (2.15pm). Her parents are thinking of placing a bench in their daughter's memory in the church grounds.

Vicky's parents, Doug and Sue, paid tribute to their daughter, who was a popular personality at the Horse and Jockey pub in Tylers Green, where she worked.

Mr Bishop said: "She was larger than life and just outgoing. She was vivacious and so many people knew her. She lived life for the moment. She was just turning from a girl into a young lady."

Vicky's mother said her brothers James, 18, and William, 11, were devastated by their sister's death, adding: "She was so bubbly and cuddly. We were so close and she used to just come over and say 'I love you'."

The family is now joining the Free Press in calling for immediate safety measures along the stretch of road where there have been three other fatalities, three serious accidents and eight minor collisions in the last ten years.

Mr Bishop said: "There are too many people losing their lives."

Both Mr and Mrs Bishop believe measures should be taken along the stretch, which they describe as a fast road, to cut out the number of accidents occurring there.

Last October, David Brown, died on the same stretch of road after his car hit a tree on his way home from a evening out.

The 23-year-old was just a quarter-of-a-mile from his home in Penn Street when the accident happened.

Four months later, his parents, Basil and Jennifer, and brother Gary, 20, still place flowers at the scene of the accident, which is just 100 yards from floral tributes left by friends of the road's most recent victim.

David's parents are still waiting to hear the date of the inquest to establish the cause of the crash. Mrs Brown added: "Regardless of how or why he is gone it is something we will never get over."

Mrs Brown said she would support a campaign to impose traffic calming measures.

She added: "It is a terrible stretch of road and there are accidents there every fortnight. Now another young person has died and something has to be done."

Meanwhile, an inquest last June heard how Daniel Garrett, of Desborough Avenue, High Wycombe, and Ross Blackburn, of Penn Road, Hazlemere, both 19, were returning from a party in December 2000 when the Ford Escort, in which they were passengers, spun off the road and into a ditch.

Daniel's mother, Audrey Pearce, said although the condition of the vehicle was found to be partially responsible for the accident, she hoped safety measures would be put in place on the road.

She added: "The worst thing is it is such a waste of life, especially when they are so young. When something like this happens, the people who are left behind suffer."

A year later, floral tributes for the two boys are still laid just a few metres from the other tributes.

A message to Ross, left on his 20th birthday, reads: "There are no cards to send or presents to buy but to sit alone on this special day and cry. Often we sit and ask God why on that dreadful night you had to die."