A young woman was granted special guardianship of her teenage sisters just weeks before she died in a car crash.
Natalie Marshall fought for a number of years to look after her siblings Corrina-Mae Marshall, 17, and Shannon Marshall, 14. Around a month after she took over their care, she passed away following a collision on the outskirts of Darlington.
Natalie was driving a Mercedes C Class when it left road and collided with a tree on the A167 near Coatham Mundeville at around 3.15am on Friday, June 17. She sadly died at the scene A male passenger in his twenties was taken to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough with serious injuries.