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Man charged after crash killed six people - including parents and two children

A man has been charged more than two years after a crash that killed six people.

Christopher Cockell, 50, faces six counts of causing death by dangerous driving after the collision on the A61 near Mapplewell, Barnsley, in July 2024.

Four members of the same family were among those killed in the collision - Shane Roller, 33, his partner Shannen Morgan, 30, and their daughters, Rubie and Lillie Morgan-Roller, aged nine and four.

A third daughter who was not in their Ford Focus was left orphaned by the crash.

Also killed were a married couple riding a BMW S100 XR motorbike - Christopher Barton, 56, and Janine Barton, 48.

West Yorkshire Police said Cockell, of Gresford Close, Woolley Grange, would appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on 28 October.

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