FLORAL tributes create a sea of tangible grief close to the spot where a teenager lost her life in a horrific road crash.

Kelsey Murphy, 16, from Ramsgate, was killed when a car driven by her 18-year-old brother, Aaron, was in collision with a lorry. Aaron was seriously injured.

Yards from the spot where Kelsey died, the railings on the boundary of Margate cricket club and Hartsdown Road are laden with flowers, posters, messages, pictures, cuddly toys, candles and night-lights in an outpouring of emotion.

A single sheet of paper with a heartfelt message in blue pen has been left by members of her family.

It reads: “Paul, Tina, Lorraine and Ian would like to thank all of you for your cards, flowers and kind wishes for Kelsey. She was the best daughter anyone could wish for.

“Aaron is a fighter and doing very well in hospital. The doctors are waking him up now and all the signs are very good.”

In the days after the crash, a steady stream of boys and girls from Hartsdown Technology College, where Kelsey was a student, made the short journey on foot to the shrine.

Among the flowers are school shirts, signed with messages and hung onto the black spiked fence railings, blowing in the chill wind like mourning flags.

Computer images of the much-loved girl with messages typed beside are pinned to the fence, trees and on hoardings. Words have been scrawled in felt pen on the lamppost and even on the tarmac.

Meanwhile, well-wishers have left roadside messages of support for the family they have never met but whose plight has touched their hearts.

Aaron, studying for his A-levels at St George’s School, Broadstairs, where his mother teaches, remains stable in a London hospital where he has been able to communicate with his family.

The pair’s mother, Lorraine Miller, said: “Kelsey had a wonderful, wonderful spirit and she was a friend to everyone and anybody, as we can see from the grief that seems to have touched so many people.

“She was funny, she was cheeky, she was just the most wonderful gift that I could have been given in the form of a daughter.”