A DISTRAUGHT dad has urged people to pray for his teenage daughter who is fighting for her life after a horrific motorbike smash.

Georgina Saville, 16, is in a coma at Southampton General Hospital with bleeding on the brain and serious injuries to her arms and stomach following the smash in Dorset on Saturday.

Dad Phillip, 45, told the Daily Echo that he understood Georgina, who lives in Sholing, had been a passenger on a motorbike when the crash happened on the A35 Puddletown bypass near Dorchester.

Fighting back the tears, he said: “I just want her to be OK. She is an outgoing, happy-go-lucky girl who enjoys living life to the full. She loves life and the outdoors.”

He is calling for witnesses to come forward and help with the investigation.

He added: “I am asking for anyone who saw anything or anyone who knows how the riders rode, especially the driver of the bike that Georgina was on, to come forward.

“It is not going to bring her life back the way it was but if anyone knows anything about what happened please tell the police and pray for my daughter.”

He described Georgina, who is a student at Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh and also works at a McDonald’s restaurant in Southampton, as a popular teenager who loved skiing and travelling abroad.

She is a former pupil of Oasis Academy Mayfield in the city. It is understood Georgina was among a group of bikers who were riding from Southampton to Weymouth for the day.

As reported by the Daily Echo, the crash happened at 1.10pm on Saturday on the A35 westbound between Yellowham Hill and Puddletown, four miles east of Dorchester. It involved three bikes and left four people injured.

They are all from the Southampton area according to police. The road was closed for several hours after the incident.

Georgina and a 23-year-old man were airlifted by air ambulance to Southampton General Hospital.

His condition is believed to be serious but not life threatening.

Two men aged 21 and 28 were taken to Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, for treatment to serious, but not life-threatening injuries.

Dorset Police said they responded to a “serious injury collision which had occurred between a number of motorcycles”. Two air ambulances and a police helicopter attended the scene.

Sergeant Joe Pardey, of Dorset Police’s Traffic Unit, said: “I am appealing to anyone who witnessed the collision, or the manner of riding of either of the motorcycles prior to the incident, to please call me on 101."

“The road was closed for a considerable time and I would like to thank motorists for their patience during these closures which are necessary to allow us to establish how the collision occurred.”

Witnesses and Anyone with information should call Dorset Police in confidence on 101 quoting incident number 7:199.