Corby mum-of-two Rosemary Winnie, 50, had been due to marry Kenny Hagan, 57, when she was involved in a collision in Cottingham Road in the town in March.

It has now been revealed her organs were donated to five recipients, including two babies.

Mrs Winnie, of Waver Close, had been planning a secret wedding with Mr Hagan, due to take place in May.

The couple were planning on surprising their friends and family with the wedding and a holiday

Ms Winnie, who was driving back from a physiotherapy appointment at the Willowbrook Health Centre when she collided with a bus, had only just passed her test and had clocked up just 100 miles in her new car.

She died after being airlifted to Walsgrave Hospital and her story was filmed by ITV's Life and Death, which last month screened her mother Mary and Mr Hagan taking the decision to switch off the life-support machine.

Her organs have now helped save the lives of five people:

*A 46-year-old chronically ill man who was given her liver.

*A West Midlands man in his early 40s who had waited three years for a transplant was given her left kidney.

*A woman aged 43 from the south of England who was given her right kidney after a previous failed transplant. She had been on the waiting list for nine months.

*A five-month-old baby being treated in Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital received a heart valve after suffering from a congenital heart defect.

*An 18-month-old girl also received a heart valve.

Dozens of tributes from as far away as Australia were posted on the Evening Telegraph's website following the death of Ms Winnie, who was originally from Lanarkshire.

Her sister Margaret Boyd, of Bellshill, Lanarkshire, said: "Nothing can bring Rosemary back but it makes us very proud that she has been able to help people in this way.

"That is what she would have wanted and, to us, she is a hero.

"I hope it will encourage other people to become donors."

John Baker, from UK Transplant, the charity that runs the donor card system, said: "We express our sincere condolences to Rosemary's family and we hope that they take some comfort from the fact that she was able to give the gift of life to five other people after she died."