Poland thanks UK trucker for Berlin attack fundraising

Polish Ambassador Arkady Rzegocki, right, welcomes British lorry driver David Duncan at the Polish Embassy in London, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. The British lorry driver from West Yorkshire led a fundraising campaign in support of the family of the late Lukasz Urban, a fellow trucker killed in the Berlin attack in December last year. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (The Associated Press)

British lorry driver David Duncan is welcomed by Polish Ambassador Arkady Rzegocki, right, at the Polish Embassy in London, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. The British lorry driver from West Yorkshire led a fundraising campaign in support of the family of the late Lukasz Urban, a fellow trucker killed in the Berlin attack in December last year. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (The Associated Press)

Poland's ambassador to Britain has personally thanked a British trucker who raised almost 200,000 pounds ($243,000) for the family of a Polish trucker killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack.

Driver Lukasz Urban was shot and stabbed by an attacker who hijacked his truck and drove it into a holiday-season crowd Dec. 19, killing 12 people.

David Duncan used a crowd-funding website to raise 190,000 pounds for Urban's widow and son.

During a ceremony Monday at London's Polish Embassy, Ambassador Arkady Rzegocki said the fundraising was "not only a gesture of solidarity with fellow drivers but also with the Polish nation shocked by the terrorist attack."

Duncan says he expected to raise a few hundred pounds, and "was amazed. It was incredible the amount of people that responded to it."