Police launch probe into ‘altercation’ at caravan park hours before horror Cardiff car crash that left three dead and two others seriously injured – as detectives hunt for sixth passenger
- Police investigating bust-up at caravan park where group in Cardiff crash were
Police have launched a probe into an ‘altercation’ at a caravan park which is said to have happened just hours before the horror car crash in Cardiff that left three dead and two seriously injured.
The details of the bust-up are not yet clear but it reportedly happened at Trecco Bay caravan park in Porthcawl, which is where the group had travelled 40 miles to after exiting a nightclub in Newport, south Wales, last Friday night.
Detectives are now hunting for a sixth passenger – an unnamed man – who is understood to have been dropped off at his home in Cardiff after the group left the caravan park.
Eve Smith and her friend Darcy Ross, both 21, died in the collision alongside Rafel Jeanne, 24. And Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, both remain in a critical condition after being left in the wreckage for nearly two days.
The white Volkswagen Tiguan carrying the group was discovered in trees just yards off the A48 in Cardiff in the in the early hours of Monday morning – and may have been there unnoticed for 48 hours.
Eve Smith, 21, (pictured) whose sister Xana was killed by a drug and drink 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 in CCTV footage taken at a petrol station in the Pentwyn area of Cardiff, not far from the crash site
Sophie Russon, 20, had life-saving surgery in hospital after fracturing her skull in the crash, which led to a bleed on her brain
Rafel Jeanne is one of three people who died in a horrific crash in St Mellons, Cardiff
Shane Loughlin, 32, (pictured) also spent nearly two days critically injured in the car and he is in hospital in critical condition
Police have confirmed today that they are investigating reports of the alleged altercation at the caravan park as well as suggestions there was a sixth passenger, the Mirror reports.
A spokesperson for South Wales Police told the paper that they would not make any additional comments while the investigation was ongoing.
It is not yet known why the group went to the caravan park, but it is reportedly believed that Mr Loughlin’s family own a caravan at the site.