A YOUNG soccer fan who died in a road crash will have a part of her favourite football ground named after her.

Sharon Charlesworth, 22, left £2,000 in her will to Accrington Stanley, and some of the money will be spent in naming part of a new stand to be built at the Crown Ground after her.

Sharon, of Rothwell House, Priestley Clough, Accrington, was a reds fanatic and rarely missed a game home or away.

She died when she lost control of her car on the A59 at Samlesbury while returning from a match in Barrow last October.

Sharon, who left an estate of over £40,000, was buried with a Stanley scarf draped on her coffin and an autographed club football placed on top. Stanley chairman Eric Whalley said: "We are hoping to build the new stand this season and we are planning to name part of it in memory of Sharon.

"Sharon was well known at the club and, as far as I know, she never missed a game in the time that I have been here.

"We want to do something to make sure she will be remembered at Accrington Stanley for many years to come."

Sharon's death was the second tragedy to hit the Charlesworth family in the space of three years.

Her brother John died at the age of 23 when he was involved in a head-on crash in 1993.

County coroner Howard McCann recored a verdict of accidental death at an inquest held at Preston Crown Court.

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