Nothing's as important as learning to stay alive

Partner of pregnant mum killed in a crash fights to end speeding culture

- HEATHER MAIN

TWO boys who survived a horrific car crash which killed a pregnant Hollyoaks actress have created a road safety campaign to save lives.

Star Frankie Jules-Hough's son Tommy Spencer, nine, and nephew Tobias Welby, six, spent weeks in intensive care with brain injuries after the May 2023 motorway smash.

Now, they have helped design a road safety scheme to teach kids about keeping families safe.

Tommy has created four of the campaign's characters - Stop, Think, Clunk and Click and Tobias has designed one named Roadbot. Frankie's partner, Calvin Buckley, 42, and her dad Frank Hough, 62, are taking the creations into schools across the UK, and making an app.

Calvin is desperate to stop reckless being driving applauded on social media. He said: "Education is the best route out of this - we need proper road safety education on the curriculum. There's nothing more important than FA learning how to stay alive." In one week, Calvin changed from a thrilled father-to-be to a man devastated by the senseless death of his beloved Frankie, 38, and their unborn daughter Neeve.

Frankie was looking after her nephew while her sister was at work and was dropping off Tommy at his dad's house when she got a puncture in her Skoda Fabia. The star, who was 17 weeks pregnant, her two sons and her nephew were parked on the hard shoulder of the M66 near Bury, Greater Manchester, when a car ploughed into them.

It was driven by Adil Iqbal, now 22, who had filmed himself doing up to 123mph before losing control of his dad's BMW. Frankie suffered fatal brain injuries and died two days later.