Liverpool fundraises for family in Highway 103 fatal crash

Community members in Liverpool on Nova Scotia's South Shore are fundraising for a family involved in a fatal car crash Thursday on Highway 103.

Nicole Foster-Thomas, 26, of Liverpool was killed in the crash near Brooklyn, according to a Facebook page created to support her family. Her husband, Charles Thomas, 40, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

The couple have a five-year-old son and seven-month-old son, according to the Facebook group.

Friends have set up donation boxes at businesses around the town, said Diane Warner of Liverpool's Native Council. The group has also opened a GoFundMe account.

'Her family came first'

Warner said the group is looking for diapers, snacks, groceries, "whatever people feel they would need in the long term" and money to help with bills and funeral costs.

The five-year-old boy loves the TV show Paw Patrol, one Facebook group member posted.

Warner knew Foster-Thomas and says the community is trying to give back like she did.

"Her family came first and anybody else that needed help, she was there," Warner said. "We're just here to help the family in whatever way that looks like."

RCMP are investigating the cause of the collision involving the family's small car, a pickup truck and a transport truck. The pickup truck's driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries and the tractor-trailer driver suffered minor injuries, RCMP said.