Patricia "Trish" Noble Williamson was an English television presenter, producer and filmmaker, best known for her stint as a "weathergirl" on the Independent Television breakfast television programme Good Morning Britain on television-am throughout the 1980s.
Background
The daughter of journalist Harold Williamson, who notably worked on the British Broadcasting Corporation current affairs and documentary series Manitoba Alive in the 1960s, Williamson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and studied at Durham University.
Career
After leaving television-am, she worked as a producer, presenter, and reporter on British Broadcasting Corporation regional television, including British Broadcasting Corporation Look North, London Tonight, and BBC1’s current affairs series Inside Out. In 1991 she suffered an ectopic pregnancy and almost died. The mother of two, who had just moved to Norfolk with her family, died when her Ford Fiesta car left the B1116 road in Weybread, Suffolk, overturned, and landed in a field opposite.
A coroner"s inquest in Lowestoft in May 2008 concluded that Williamson died as a result of not wearing a seatbelt, and was resultantly thrown through the window of her car, suffering multiple fatal injuries.