Tributes were today paid to a tragic Wolverhampton nurse who was killed in a horror motorcycle smash .

Kathleen Sheridan was pronounced dead at the city’s New Cross Hospital – where she had worked for five years – on Tuesday.

She was driving a Kawasaki 1100cc when she collided with a black Toyota Yaris. The accident happened on the A460 at Featherstone.

Thank-you cards from Miss Sheridan’s grateful patients are still on display at her home in Monsal Avenue, Springfield, Wolverhampton.

Mother Margaret Sheridan was too upset to talk but Mary Slattery, who helped raise Nina, said she was a lovely young woman and a wonderful nurse.

She said: “She was very well-known and much-loved at the hospital.

“People would send her cards to say thank you for their treatment.”

Miss Sheridan studied human biology, psychology and perspectives in health care at Wolverhampton College.

The popular nurse, who was born into a family of travellers and spent only two years at school, won a national award in 2001 for her outstanding educational achievements.

Miss Sheridan, who was also women’s officer for the National Union of Students at Wolverhampton College, was said to have a great love of Wolverhampton as it was the first place she truly put down roots.

She was also said to have had a real “thirst for knowledge”.

A funeral is being arranged for Tuesday. Floral tributes were today outside Miss Sheridan’s home.

A 47-year-old woman, believed to be from Penn, has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

The crash happened at 5pm and Miss Sheridan was airlifted to New Cross Hospital. Staffordshire Police spokeswoman Liz McGinn said both women had been travelling in the direction of Wolverhampton when the crash happened.