An extraordinary response by the public that has seen more than £300,000 raised for an 11-year-old girl whose entire family were killed in a crash involving a car and a motorbike means she will have financial support for “the next few years”, the organiser of an online fundraiser has told Yahoo News.
Shane Roller, 33, his partner Shannen Morgan, 30, and their daughters Rubie and Lillie Morgan-Roller, aged nine and four, died in the incident on the A61 between Wakefield and Barnsley on Sunday afternoon.
The couple’s eldest daughter, Poppie, 11, was playing at a friend’s house at the time of the crash after deciding not to go for a walk with them.
It was as they were returning from their walk that the family’s car was involved in a collision with the motorbike.
The motorcylist and passenger who also died in the crash were named by police on Tuesday as Christopher Barton, 56, and Janine Barton, 48, who had recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
Paying tribute to the couple, they were described by their son as “a loving, caring mum and dad who always put me before everything else.”
