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Daniel Bartle, 19, had lived all his life in the village of Nantymoel. Known as a "gentle giant", he worked in Pyle as a trainee electrician. (18 July)
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Zohiab Ahmed Waqas, 19, from Waunarlydd and John Read, 49, from the Brynmill, both died on Monday. Their blue Toyota MR2 and silver Suzuki Grand Vitara 4x4 collided on Cwmbach Road, Cockett at around 1655 BST.(16 July)
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A 19-year-old man has died after a van overturned on the westbound carriageway of the M4 near Bridgend. The carriageway between junction 36 and 37 was closed after the crash, which happened at around 0800 BST on Wednesday. (16 July)
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A drink-driver who lost control of his car on a treacherous mountain road, killing a 15-year-old passenger, has been jailed. Stephen Morris, 21, hit a pot- hole in his Peugeot GTI and careered down banking on the single-lane road between Tredegar and Markham during the early hours of August 26 last year.
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A man who died in a crash near Chepstow has been named as Edward Kangalee from Monmouth. The 24-year old was the passenger in the collision on the B4293 Devauden to Chepstow at about 0025 BST on Saturday. The driver of the car had to be treated at hospital following the incident. He was arrested and released on bail. (7 July)
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A 22-year-old man was killed after the car in which he was travelling crashed and overturned into a drainage ditch, known as a reen. Jamie Linton died after the Vauxhall Corsa left the road and overturned on a road known locally as Sea Wall Road in Magor near Newport on Friday evening. (19 May)
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A teenager driver has died after police said he lost control of his car, veered across the road and hit a stone wall. South Wales Police said the 18-year-old local man was trying to negotiate a bend at Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan on Friday night. (12 May)
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Two men have died after their car collided with a lamppost and the Cross Keys pub on the A474 at Glanaman, near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. The crash happened at around 0245 BST on Monday and the two men, who were in their early 20s, were pronounced dead at the scene. (5 May)
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Police are continuing to investigate a crash that killed two teenagers on the heads of the valleys road.Rhiannon Davies, 18, and Jade Emanuel, 17, both from Rhondda, died at the scene after their car was in a head-on collision in heavy rain. (31 March)
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A young male driver has died after his car left the road at Kinmel Bay in Rhyl.
Firefighters from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service freed him from the wreckage but he died at the scene. (26 March)
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An 18-year-old woman has been killed after a road crash on the outskirts of Cardiff early on Easter Sunday. (24 March)
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A talented footballer was hit with a community order after running away from the scene of a crash. Lloyd Raymond Toghill, aged 18, smashed his black Renault Clio into a parked car in Taff’ s Well last year. But he scampered from the scene saying he was scared because he’d never been involved in anything like that in the past. (28 February)
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A banned driver took his stepfather’s car and drove it while over the legal alcohol limit.
Jordan David Eagle, aged 20, of Pant Street, Pantygog, was caught at Cuckoo Street near his home at 3am on December 30 last year.The trainee mechanic told police: “I have had a few drinks.” (7 February)
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A drink driver ended up in a ditch when he took the wheel of his mother’s car. Stuart Anthony Cunningham, aged 21, of St John’s Road, Cefn Glas, admitted driving while twice the legal alcohol limit and without a licence or insurance. (31 January)
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A woman who swerved to avoid a squirrel, ended up rolling her car and becoming trapped, Pontypridd Magistrates Court heard. Fire officers had to free Jessica Perry, aged 20, of Tonypandy. She was breathalysed some hours later in hospital and was found to be twice the drink drive limit. (3 January)
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An 18-year-old kickboxer and rugby player has been named as the car driver killed in a collision with a coach. Aaron Dixon died in the collision on the A5 between Corwen and Llangollen, Denbighshire, on Saturday afternoon. (31 December)
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Do you have a friend who drives too fast? Do they love the thrill of speeding, making dangerous moves on the roads, driving too close behind other cars and being generally too arrogant behind the wheel? If you answered yes to any of the above, you have a deadly mate. (13 December)
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Fire crews were called to the scene between Carmarthen and Alltwallis at 0352 GMT on Sunday where driver Mark Miller, 20 from Pencader died. Chelsea Leigh Lewis, 20, from Llechryd, Cardigan who was a passenger also died. (20 November)
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Families and friends of four schoolgirls killed near Ebbw Vale have united at a candle-lit vigil to mark a year since the tragedy. (2 November)
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Ceri Robertson's brother Rhodri Roberts was a passenger in a Renault Clio car which hit a road sign in Llandudno.
Mrs Robertson described the night of her brother's death last year and the impact on his family to 17 and 18-year-olds at Eirias High School, Colwyn Bay. (24 October)
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A 25-year-old motorist who died when her car hit a tree and overturned in Llanfair Caereinion, Powys has been named by police. She was Bethan Elen Williams, who lived in Llanfair Caereinion. (1 October)
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Five people were killed yesterday when suspected “joyriders” drove a car the wrong way down the M4 and ploughed head-on into an oncoming car. (18 September)
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15-year-old boy from Blaenau Gwent died after the car he was travelling in hit a wall outside a fire station. Nathan John Higgins, from Rassau, Ebbw Vale, died following the collision in Brynmawr. (3 September)
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A man has been arrested and released on bail over a car crash which killed a schoolgirl. Kirsty Anne Myerscough, aged 15, of Bargoed, died in the crash in the early hours of Sunday. A 20-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy who were also in the car, were treated in hospital. (29 August)
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The family of a teenager killed on one of Wales’ most dangerous roads have said they are devastated by the loss of their "caring and compassionate" daughter. Louise Henderson died in the early hours of Sunday morning when her yellow Peugeot 106 flipped over after leaving Cardiff’s A4232 Ely link road. (14 August)
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’ - A 21 year old driver was killed after he lost control in a head-on collision while not wearing a seatbelt. Daniel Coyle, from Pen-y-Graig, Pontypridd, died after the silver Ford Ka he was driving crashed on Llantrisant Road, Capel Llanilltern, Cardiff, in November, Cardiff Coroner’s Court heard. (21 June)
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- Friends of a young police worker killed after her car hit a tree have paid tribute to her as a “bubbly, caring and beautiful girl”. Police civilian clerk Natalie Stewart died after she crashed her Ford Fiesta as she drove to work at a police station in Cardiff. (30 May)
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' - The mother of a teenager killed by a drink-driver has called for tougher sentences for young road offenders. Kerry Palmer was speaking after police revealed increasing numbers of young people in Wales are driving while over the limit. Mrs Palmer’s son Aaron, 18, died on Boxing Day 2003 when he was hit by a 20-year-old drink-driver. (30 May)
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- A 15-year-old boy who died when the car he was travelling in hit a tree has been named by police as Matthew Thomas from the Portmead area of Swansea. A 17-year-girl also in the vehicle remains critically ill at the city's Morriston Hospital. (12 May)
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- A man has been given 12 months in jail for killing his cousin in a car crash, despite a plea from the dead teenager's family he should be spared prison. David Wynne Jones, 22, from Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, was at the wheel when Ian Wynne Jones, 16, died in an accident in May 2006. (9 May)
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- A 17-year-old boy has been charged with four counts of manslaughter following the death of four teenage girls in a car crash, police said today. Danielle Caswell and Katie Roberts, both 15, and 16-year-olds Louise Jones and Kayleigh Parry died at the scene of an accident on a mountain road near Ebbw Vale, South Wales, in November last year.
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Bydd 1 o bob 5 gyrrwr mewn gwrthdrawiad yn ystod
ei flwyddyn/ei blwyddyn gyntaf o yrru. |
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Caiff 1 o bob 319 o yrwyr ifanc gwryw ei ladd neu ei anafu’n
ddifrifol mewn damwain car yn ystod y 12 mis nesaf. |
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Caiff 1 o bob 754 o yrwyr benyw ifanc ei lladd neu ei hanafu’n
ddifrifol mewn damwain car yn ystod y 12 mis nesaf. |
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Mae gyrrwr 18 oed deirgwaith yn fwy tebyg o fod mewn gwrthdrawiad
na gyrrwr 48 oed. |
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Mae gyrwyr ifanc yn fwy tebyg o fod mewn gwrthdrawiadau lle
collir rheolaeth ar gerbyd, lle bydd gwrthdrawiad yn digwydd
ar dro yn y ffordd, yn y tywyllwch, ac mewn gwrthdrawiadau oherwydd
gyrru’n amhriodol o gyflym. |
Mae llu o resymau sy’n esbonio pam y mae gyrwyr ifanc yn
fwy tebyg o fod mewn gwrthdrawiadau na gyrwyr mwy profiadol.
Dyma un o’r prif resymau. Wrth i yrwyr newydd fagu profiad,
mae cyfradd eu damweiniau’n dechrau gostwng.
Mae tuedd i yrwyr ifanc, a dynion yn enwedig, fod yn or-hyderus
ac maen nhw’n fwy tebyg o’i mentro hi wrth yrru. Byddan
nhw’n tybio’n gyson bod eu sgiliau’n well na’r
cyffredin er bod eu risg o gael damwain yn awgrymu fel arall. Iddyn
nhw, yn aml iawn, ‘gyrru da’ yw gallu rheoli car wrth
ei yrru’n gyflym iawn.
Er bod tuedd i yrwyr iau fod â sgiliau rhagorol o ran rheoli
cerbydau a gallu adweithio’n gyflym, dydyn nhw ddim hanner
cystal am ganfod peryglon posibl ac asesu risg. Mae tuedd iddyn
nhw feddwl bod ganddyn nhw fwy o allu nag sydd ganddyn nhw i osgoi’r
perygl a’i ganlyniadau. Bydd hi’n cymryd hyd at 2 eiliad
yn hwy i yrwyr newydd adweithio i sefyllfaoedd peryglus nag a wna
gyrwyr mwy profiadol.
Mae gyrwyr ifanc yn fwy agored i bwysau eu cyfoedion, yn enwedig
os bydd eu ffrindiau yn y car. Mae’r perygl o fod mewn damwain
yn cynyddu wrth i nifer y teithwyr yn y cerbyd gynyddu.
Mae gyrwyr gwryw ifanc yn fwy tebyg o gyflawni troseddau gyrru,
neu o fod mewn damwain, na gyrwyr benyw.
The bulletin uses personal injury road accident data for Wales and compares personal injury accidents in Wales that involve young drivers (aged between 17 and 25 inclusive) with those involving other drivers. The figures cover accidents up to the year 2005 as a whole. Some of the main findings are shown below:
