Image source, Rhiannon Lucas Image caption,

An online appeal helped raise more than £17,000 to pay for the funerals of Gracie-Ann Lucas and her brother Jayden-Lee

By Jenny Casterton

Producer, The Crash Detectives

A grieving mum whose two children were killed in a motorway crash by a drink and drug driver has said her new child is a "gift from the kids".

Gracie-Ann Lucas, four, and Jayden-Lee, three, died after the family car was hit on the hard shoulder of the M4 by a van driven by Martin Newman.

Mum Rhiannon has said seven-month-old Summer-Gracie had helped the family rebuild their lives after the crash.

"She has helped me emotionally, she is a gift from them," said Rhiannon.

Summer-Gracie, named after her late older sister, was due on what would have been Gracie-Ann's sixth birthday, but arrived early on 30 March, weighing 6lb (2.7kg).

"She looks like her brother and sister," Rhiannon, 27, told the BBC.

"She's always smiling and a good baby, like the other two. She'll never take the place of Gracie and Jayden. I see her as a gift from them.

"When she's in her walker, she looks up at pictures of them on the wall.