West Somerset based charity Stand Against Speed 4 Bethany has closed after nearly ten years and shared its remaining funds among other good causes.

Bethany Paige Adams was killed in a car crash on January 7, 2012. She was 17 and a front seat passenger in a car being driven by a young, newly qualified driver.

The charity was set up by Bethany’s parents in her memory with the sole aim of educating young drivers aged between 16 and 25.

They delivered this in ways including a Choice & Consequence educational go-karting course, costing £30 per person, which was run alongside Dave Adams from Avon and Somerset Police.

Mark, Helen and Danielle Adams said in a statement: “After running the charity for nearly ten years we have made the difficult decision to now focus on our own well-being as a family. We would like to thank each person that has supported us over the past ten years – without their generosity we would not have been able to carry out all the hard work we have put in to delivering Bethany’s story.”

With what is left over, Stand Against Speed 4 Bethany has funded a defibrillator costing £2,300 to be installed on the outside of Williton Parish Council office in memory of Bethany. And a cheque has been presented to Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance for £3,022.66: “Living in a rural location we felt that this money would be of great benefit to the charity,” the family said.

The road safety props, and educational items have been gifted to Teddy Bears Nursery, which Bethany attended.

Stand Against Speed 4 Bethany will still be holding its annual curry night and will give any money raised to the residents’ fund at Croft House, Williton, where Bethany was working before, she died.