Brit teen dies in Vietnam horror crash after bike hit by oncoming vehicle
Orla Wates, 19, who had been preparing to start an undergraduate course at Durham University, tragically died in a motorbike accident in northern Vietnam on April 2
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Orla Wates was ‘beautiful, independent and very funny’, her mum said(Image: Wates Family)
A British teenager has tragically died in a motorbike accident in northern Vietnam.
Orla Wates, from London, was travelling on the Ha Giang Loop during her gap year when she came off a motorbike and was struck by an oncoming vehicle. The 19-year-old, who had been preparing to start an undergraduate course at Durham University, was taken to Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in Hanoi, where she died of her injuries on Thursday (April 2).
“Orla was beautiful, independent and very funny, with a sharp wit,” her mother, Henrietta Wates, told Viet Nam News. “She loved to look good and lived life to the full.”
Her parents, Andrew and Henrietta, have allowed her organs to be donated to help other patients at the hospital, the outlet reports. Mrs Wates said: “We would like to thank Dr Trinh Van Dong and the ICU team at the hospital who cared for Orla. At this extremely difficult time for our family, we chose to donate Orla’s organs, as we believe that if there were a way to give opportunity to others, this is what Orla would have wanted. Knowing that she is living on through them brings us great comfort.”
Mr Wates, director of the Wates building firm and chairman of the Wates Family Enterprise Trust, said the family wanted to give back to Vietnam following their daughter’s tragic death. He wrote on Viet Duc Friendship Hospital’s Facebook page: “Viet Nam was a country she loved, so to give back to Viet Nam is very important to us.”
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