She said the 17-year-old had been overwhelmed and tearful at times, with the mixed emotions of sadness at having lost his friends but joy at how successful the fundraising had been. READ MORE: Family of children left with life-changing injuries after crash thanks publicĪlex’s mother, Stratford-upon-Avon based Emily Adams, said he had been amazed at how the appeal had taken off. But such has been the interest in their online fundraising appeal that it has now raised more than £139,000. They set out aiming to raise a few hundred pounds, or perhaps £1,000, in aid of the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. He, Gracie and another friend, Taylor Stubbins, plan to run in the Oxford Half Marathon on October 15. The deaths of Harry Purcell, 17, Matilda ‘Tilly’ Seccombe, 16, and Frank Wormald, 16, devastated Alex, who used to attend the school. Alex Adams joined forces with Gracie Edmunds to help those operating air ambulances after they attended the incident on April 23 in Warwickshire that claimed the lives of three Chipping Campden School sixth-formers. A teenager raising money in memory of friends he lost in a fatal crash has been overwhelmed by the public’s response.
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