Jake Day, 28, and Cindy Braddock, 25, both lost their lives in the collision (Picture: Facebook)

3 small children had been left stranded for 55 hours after a horror crash in Australia.

Cindy Braddock, 25, and Jake Day, 28 died while their Land Rover Discovery came off the street on Christmas Day.

Their kids – elderly five, two and one – sheltered within the shell of the damaged car till they had been came upon more days later.

Cindy and Jake were riding during the evening alongside the faraway Corrigin-Kondinin Highway in Western Australia.

They have been simply 10km from house after they crashed.

The couple’s devastated family have now made a desperate plea to motorists, urging them ‘don’t pressure tired’.

Michael Learn, who’s a cousin to 1 of the parents, advised ABC: ‘They were given out, put gas in, then they got here in, they went to the toilet, they got here and bought drinks and snacks and stuff for the road.

‘They regarded very exhausted. He informed me he used to be heading to Kondinin and that it used to be a couple of hours drive.

The circle of relatives had been stated missing on Christmas Day via concerned household (Image: GoFundMe)

‘He didn’t purchase a espresso. Then he left, I instructed him good luck with the long pressure.

‘Unfortunately, he by no means made it.’

Cindy and Jake’s 5-year-vintage daughter reportedly stored the lives of her young brothers.

in line with local media, she controlled to loose herself and unclip her siblings from their automotive seats.

The circle of relatives were just 10km from house when their car got here off the road (Image: Facebook)

Jake’s stepfather, Richard Parker, has confirmed the kids are being cared for in sanatorium.

‘She’s a legend, she always has been… she’s a robust little girl,’ he told The West.

‘I enjoy the folks who were available in the market serving to us search for them. We’ll get through it, we’ve simply were given to plod along.’

The family were pronounced lacking on Christmas Day when they didn’t appear to a family birthday celebration.

A GoFundMe web page to lift money for the orphaned children has already noticed greater than $27,000 pledged.  

It states: ‘the children are these days in medical institution with family and are all doing okay taking into account the cases.’

Police are investigating how the crash came about

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