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| Hen party crash: Friends raise funds for air ambulance | Hen party crash: Friends raise funds for air ambulance |
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| Friends of an 18-year-old woman who was killed when a hen party's minibus crashed, aim to raise £50,000 for the air ambulance service. | |
| Trainee nurse Bethany Jones died and eight others remain in hospital after the bus and a lorry collided on the M62 in West Yorkshire on Friday. | |
| Six air ambulances were involved in transporting the injured. | Six air ambulances were involved in transporting the injured. |
| Hundreds of people from Miss Jones' home town of South Elmsall took part in a vigil in her memory on Sunday. | Hundreds of people from Miss Jones' home town of South Elmsall took part in a vigil in her memory on Sunday. |
| Hannah Bell, a friend of Miss Jones, said: "We put some candles down for Beth and then we went to the church up the road and laid our flowers and the tributes we'd all written and said a prayer for her. | Hannah Bell, a friend of Miss Jones, said: "We put some candles down for Beth and then we went to the church up the road and laid our flowers and the tributes we'd all written and said a prayer for her. |
| "If you think of all the nice words in the world that was Beth and more." | "If you think of all the nice words in the world that was Beth and more." |
| Another friend, Bethany Billington, said: "We didn't believe it, we just couldn't believe it was Beth and when we did it was pure devastation, it was awful." | Another friend, Bethany Billington, said: "We didn't believe it, we just couldn't believe it was Beth and when we did it was pure devastation, it was awful." |
| People have already donated more than £3,000 towards the appeal to raise funds for the air ambulances that tried to save Miss Jones' life. | People have already donated more than £3,000 towards the appeal to raise funds for the air ambulances that tried to save Miss Jones' life. |
| "It is just something she would have wanted, If it had been any of us then she would have done the same thing," Miss Bell said of the appeal. | "It is just something she would have wanted, If it had been any of us then she would have done the same thing," Miss Bell said of the appeal. |
| Twenty-one people were on the minibus heading from South Elmsall near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, to Liverpool. | |
| Crews from West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was the worst crash they had seen in years. | Crews from West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was the worst crash they had seen in years. |
| West Yorkshire Police said the lorry driver, arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, had been bailed. | West Yorkshire Police said the lorry driver, arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, had been bailed. |