A crowdfunding campaign to support the grieving family of two-year-old crash Harlow Edwards victim has topped £10,000.
The appeal was launched by well-wishers after the tragic accident in Coupar Angus during the October holidays.
Little Harlow was struck while walking along the town’s Forfar Road with her big sister Dionne, 17, and six-year-old brother Leon, who were both badly hurt.
Setting up the JustGiving page, family friend Nadia Rice wrote: “We are trying to raise funds to support a wonderful caring family who have been left devastated after a fatal car collision which lead to the loss of their beautiful daughter Harlow.
“We aim to support them financially so they can nurse their children back to health and relieve the financial strains while they try to get through this worry and grief.
“Any help would be most appreciative big or small every little bit will help this family.”
The campaign raised just over £5,000 in less than 24 hours.
By Friday morning, more than 520 people had donated to the online fund, generating a total of £10,100 – more than two-and-a-half times the original target.
Among the donors was the Medicines Monitoring Unit at Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital.
Donating £445, a spokesman for the unit posted: “We are all thinking about you and your family at this heartbreaking time and are devastated for your sad loss.
“Everyone sends their love and we wish Dionne and Leon a speedy recovery from their trauma.”
Meanwhile, Dionne has taken to social media to plead for the safe return of her stolen mobile phone, which contains scores of pictures of her young sister.
The gold iPhone 6 was lost several months before the accident.
An inbuilt GPS tracker shows it has since been to Kirkcaldy, Glasgow and last switched on in Preston.
Dionne tweeted: “Long shot, but my phone was stolen out of my bag some months ago.
“I don’t care about the phone, but it’s all the pictures of Harlow since the day she was born.”
She added: “I have no back up and would hate to just never see them again. It means so much that I get the pictures from it.”
Meanwhile, locals have been invited to take part in a bulb planting session at Coupar Angus common on Saturday morning.
The town’s Pride of Place committee wants to plant crocuses which will blossom every year in Harlow’s memory. The event also coincides with the Royal Horticultural Society’s Purple for Polio campaign.
Planting gets under way at 10am.
