Police launch investigation into caravan park ‘alteration’ hours before Cardiff crash that killed three
Police launch investigation into caravan park ‘alteration’ hours before horrific Cardiff car crash that left three dead and two others seriously injured as detectives search for sixth passenger
- Police investigate raid on caravan park where group was in Cardiff crash
Police have launched an investigation into an ‘alteration’ at a caravan park said to have occurred just hours before the horrific car crash in Cardiff that left three dead and two seriously injured.
Details of the raid are still unclear, but it reportedly occurred at the Trecco Bay caravan park in Porthcawl, which is where the group had traveled 40 miles after leaving a nightclub in Newport, South Wales. , Friday night.
After the group left the caravan park, it is understood they dropped off a sixth passenger, a man whose name has not been identified, at his home in Cardiff. Detectives are now searching for this man.
Eve Smith and her friend Darcy Ross, both 21, died in the collision along with Rafel Jeanne, 24. And Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, remain in critical condition after lying in the rubble for almost two days.
The white Volkswagen Tiguan carrying the group was discovered in the trees just yards off the A48 in Cardiff in the early hours of Monday morning, and may have been there undetected for 48 hours.
Eve Smith, 21, (pictured), whose sister Xana was killed by a drug and alcohol driver in 2015, died in the crash in Cardiff.
Darcy Ross, 21, (pictured) was also killed in the incident. The group was last seen in the car at 2am on Saturday on CCTV footage taken at a service station in the Pentwyn area of Cardiff, not far from the crash site.
Sophie Russon, 20, underwent life-saving surgery in hospital after fracturing her skull in the accident, which caused bleeding in her brain.
Rafel Jeanne is one of three people who died in a horrific accident in St Mellons, Cardiff.
Police today confirmed that they are investigating reports of the alleged altercation at the caravan park, as well as suggestions that there was a sixth passenger, the Mirror reports.