Driver charged over fireball crash that killed 6 including family trapped in burning car

The couple’s eldest daughter, who has been named locally as 11-year-old Poppie, has now been left without parents or siblings after losing ‘her entire world in an instant’ (Picture: PA wire)

A driver will appear in court to face charges of causing the deaths of six people in a fireball crash on a busy road.

Christopher Cockell, 50, of Gresford Close, Woolley Grange, has been charged with six counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

Parents Shannen Morgan and Shane Roller were killed with their daughters, Rubie, 9, and Lillie, 4, when the family’s car struck a motorbike on the A61 on 21 July 2024.

The family were trapped inside the burning car.

Husband and wife Christopher and...