A FUN-loving, hard-working student who enjoyed life is how a Corfe Mullen mum remembers her son, who died after an accident on a country road.

An inquest ruled that Robert Tazey died as a result of his injuries after his Vauxhall Corsa was in a head-on collision with a lorry on the B3082 near Kingston Lacy in September last year.

The inquest heard evidence that Robert's car had been trying to overtake another vehicle when the crash occurred at just after 4pm.

Sharon Tazey said that Robert, 19, had been on his way back to the University of Bath, to help with the Freshers Week for new students.

Mrs Tazey said Robert had gained the three As at A-level at Corfe Hills School so he could study architecture at the University of Bath.

He had enjoyed his first year and had planned to move into a flat with some of the friends he had made for his second year of studies.

Robert had worked behind the bar in Bar Me in the summer.

Mrs Tazey said: "He loved that. He said it was like having a social life and getting paid for it.

"They used to dress up in different outfits every week. All his friends would come in."

She added that her son had a wide range of friends, whom he kept up with even though at university.

"If anything was happening, he was there."

Robert also liked keeping fit.

He had been to Aya Napa on holiday with friends a few months before the accident.

His love of the cartoon figure Sponge Bob Square Pants was marked by friends, one of whom created a floral tribute inspired by the figure, and another who left a Sponge Bob at the accident site.

Around 400 people turned up to his funeral, including a number of people from the university.

Money donated will be going to support the air ambulance, which tried to help him.

He is survived by younger sisters Victoria, 14, and Stephanie, 18, and parents Sharon and Stuart.