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A 21-year-old woman has died following a crash between two cars near Wrexham. The collision between a blue Peugeot 106 and a blue Renault Laguna happened on the B5101 Vicarage Road in Brymbo at around 19:20 GMT on Monday. The woman, who was from Wrexham, was a passenger in the Peugeot and died at the scene (24 January)
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Two young men have been killed and a third man injured after their car hit a tree on the Horsehoe Pass in Denbighshire.Emergency services were called to the mountainous section of the A542 near the Britannia Inn at around 12:36 GMT.The Peugeot 206, in which the men from the Ruabon area were travelling, hit the tree after leaving the road (9 January)
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The crash happened at about 06:00 GMT on the A4086 Llanberis road, near the Glyntwrog Inn in Llanrug, near Caernarfon. Police say both the driver and passenger in the silver Vauxhall Corsa died at the scene (1 January 2012)
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Tributes have poured in for Nathan Wills, who died on Tuesday after his car crashed and caught fire on the A470 early on Tuesday morning.
The 20-year-old from Porth, Rhondda, is the third Pontyclun RFC player to have been killed behind the wheel in nine months (4 August)
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The mother of an 18-year-old man killed when his van hit a tree in Powys has paid tribute to her son. Anselm Lloyd Grindey, from Llanilar, near Aberystwyth, died at the scene of the incident on the A489 at Penstrowed, near Newtown, last Friday (31 March)
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A driver who caused the death of a potential buyer of his car during a test drive has been jailed. Gavin Collier, 20, of Neath, had travelled to Tenby, Pembrokeshire, to view the Peugeot hatchback. Nathan Morris, 23, crashed into a parked car while travelling at up to 75mph in a 50mph zone on the test drive. (21 February)
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A 21-year-old man is still being questioned after a car crashed into a lake early on Tuesday, killing two teenagers. Anwen Busby, 16, and Jai Burkes, 19, were both students at Penglais Comprehensive School in Aberystwyth. Two other 16-year-old girls and the driver, understood to be Mr Burkes' best friend Ashley Williams, survived. (1 September)
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Angharad Mary Clague, from Reading, Berkshire, died at the scene on the A494 at Glanrafon, near Corwen, on Wednesday. Three other people remain in hospital. (15 July)
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A teenager who crashed his car while on drink and drugs, killing a friend, has been sentenced to three and a half years in youth custody.
Adam Thorogood, 17, of Boverton, Vale of Glamorgan, had passed his driving test a month before the crash which killed James Coates, 17, of Rhoose. (21 April)
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Three teenagers were among four people killed when their car left the road and hit a tree near Porthcawl. The crash happened on the A4229 close to a golf club at South Cornelly, just before midnight on Thursday. (19 April)
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Shane Morgan, aged 18, from Cardigan, died in the collision on the A484 between Newcastle Emlyn and Cenarth at 0100 BST on Sunday. (14 April)
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A drunken driver who crashed his van down a ravine, killing his friend, has been jailed for six years. Cardiff Crown Court heard Daniel Isherwood, 22, of Maesteg, Bridgend county, had drunk nine pints of lager when he clipped a kerb at 45mph. (10 March)
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The mother of a teenage boy killed in a car crash has urged people not to drink and drive or get in a car with an intoxicated driver. (24 November)
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Two 17-year-old boys have been killed and a third boy was injured in a crash during the night on a road in the Vale of Glamorgan. (17 November)
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Kyle Powell, 18, from Treherbert, died after his Renault Clio overturned in a late-night accident on the A4093 at Glynogwr, near Gilfach Goch, on Friday. (3 November)
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The family of 20-year-old father who was killed in a two-car collision have paid tribute to him. Ceri John Godwin died and four others were injured in the cash on the Barry Docks link road, Vale of Glamorgan, at around 1730 BST on Monday. (1 October)
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A 17-year-old has died after the car he was travelling in left the road, hit trees and was struck by an oncoming vehicle in the Vale of Glamorgan. South Wales Police said the incident happened between Llantwit Major and St Athan at 0140 BST on Saturday. (24 August)
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The family of an 18-year-old who died following a collision with a car have spoken of their "caring young girl" who was loved by everyone. Emma Adele Morris, from Bridgend, was injured in the collision in Tremains Road, Bridgend, on Friday, and later died at the Princess of Wales Hospital. (5 August)
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A driver has appeared in court charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of his 23-year-old passenger in a crash in Flintshire at the weekend. Martin Bielicky, 29, a Slovakian living at Shotton, is accused of causing the death of David Foulkes from Mancot at Hawarden early on Sunday. (5 August)
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A 20-year-old motorist has died and another man has been injured in a road traffic collision near Wrexham. Police said the two men were travelling from Llay to Wrexham town centre when the Peugeot 106 crashed on New Road, Rhosddu at 2250 BST on Sunday. Both men were taken to the Wrexham Maelor Hospital where Aaron Griffiths-Mahoney, from Brynteg, died. (23 July)
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A motorist has been arrested after a 24-year-old passenger died when the vehicle hit a tree in Powys. The dead woman, named as Lowri Evans, 24, from Ystradgynlais, was cut free by firefighters after the collision on a bend on the A4067 in the town. Dyfed-Powys Police said a white Audi saloon left the road opposite the Caerlan junction near Veola Transport Yard just after 2300 BST on Saturday. (14 July)
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A man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for causing the deaths of three teenagers who were passengers in his car which crashed into a tree. Rebecca Lee, 18, who was pregnant, her best friend Elin Rowlands, 15, and Clifford Thomas Jones, 17, all died in the crash on Anglesey, in February.(26 June)
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Two teenage drivers have been charged with causing the deaths of an elderly couple following a fatal road crash in Flintshire before Christmas. Ricky Challinor, 19, and David Hirst, 18, are accused of causing the death of Eric Townsend, 85, and his wife Marie, 83, from Ruthin, Denbighshire.
They each face two counts of causing death by dangerous driving amid allegations they were racing. (30 April)
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A 20-year-old man has been sent to a young offender's institution after he admitted causing his friend's death by dangerous driving. Gethin Jones, from Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd, had been friends with Geraint Williams, 19, since primary school. Mr Williams was a front seat passenger when Jones' car hit a wall on a bend on the A496 at Llanbedr near Barmouth. The judge at Caernarfon Crown Court told Jones he had complete disregard of the danger and for other road users. (2 April)
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A 24-year-old man is in custody arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following a car crash where three teenagers died. Rebecca Jane Lee, 18, died with best friend Elin Rowlands, 15, also known as Ellie Chambers, and Clifford Thomas Jones, 17, in the crash on Anglesey. The crash early on Saturday has left a 17-year-old girl in a "critical but stable" condition in hospital. (4 March)
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Tributes have been paid to an 18-year-old model who died in a car crash on the way to her parents’ house on Thursday. Despite medics’ efforts, Rachel Waters could not be saved after her car collided with another vehicle and flipped over on Swansea Road, Garngoch. (1 March)
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The mother of a 22-year-old man killed in a crash has pleaded for leniency for the friend he raced against at an estimated 95mph in a 30mph zone. David Wares' mother Edwina appealed for only a short term in custody for David Bexon, 20, of Dyserth, Denbighshire. (1 March)
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Gwent Police said Gwillyn John Evans, from Pontypool, was in a Mercedes which collided with a Ford Focus on the A4043 Cwmavon Road, Cwmavon. The Mercedes driver remains in hospital with non-life threatening injuries.(20 January)
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A teenager who died in a New Year's car crash had celebrated her 17th birthday the day before, it has been revealed. Rebecca White's parents, from Kinmel Bay, Conwy, say they are devastated. Their daughter was due to start a new job as a hairdresser. (5 January)
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An 18-year-old man who died when the car he was a passenger in crashed in a country lane has been named by Dyfed-Powys Police.(23 December)
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An 18-year-old driver has died after his car was in collision with two other vehicles, say South Wales Police. The man, from Cardiff, who was in a Vauxhall Corsa, was fatally injured in the crash with a van and another car at Stalling Down, near Cowbridge. (18 December)
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A coroner said he hoped the "sad death" of a young father at the wheel of a stolen car would serve as a "warning to others". Joel Hulme, 19, was over the drink limit and had taken cocaine before the crash in June, an inquest heard. The disqualified driver from Swansea died at the scene after hitting a pedestrian island and rolling the vehicle onto its side. (16 December)
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager died following a road collision in Flintshire. The incident, involving one vehicle, occurred at about 0050 GMT on Greenfield Road in Holywell.
The driver, Lee Palmer, 19, who lived locally, was taken to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan with head injuries, but later died. (10 December)
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James Walker, known as Scott, from Swffryd, Blaenau Gwent, was killed in a collision with a lorry at around 0440 GMT between junctions 24 and 25.(25 November)
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The westbound stretch was closed between junction 24 (Coldra) and junction 26 (Malpas Road) and was shut for nearly seven hours. The crash at 0440 GMT killed a 24-year-old local man who was in the car. (24 November)
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South Wales Police have said that the 18-year-old was driving along Aberfan Road between Troedyrhiw and Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil. His black Citroen Saxo hit a tree at about 0750 GMT on Saturday morning, killing the teenager, who was the only occupant in the car.
(24 November)
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Two teenagers who were killed in a road crash in Conwy have been named by police.The driver of the Citroen Saxo was David Gwyn Watkins, 18, from Old Colwyn. His passenger was Andrew John Glyn McDavid, 18, from the Denbigh area. An elderly man who died in the other car has still to be named.
(14 November)
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The inquest heard a police speedometer showed the car it was chasing reached speeds of up to 126mph. A teenager who had taken cocaine drove the wrong way along a motorway and into another car, killing himself, two friends and a couple, an inquest heard. (5 November)
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A teenage driver killed in a collision has been described as a "wonderful young man" who loved cars. Lewis William Barnes, 19, died after his Fiat Punto car hit a tree in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, late on Sunday evening. (5 November)
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A teenage driver died in a head-on smash because his under-inflated tyres sent his car “fishtailing” out of control, an inquest heard yesterday. The coroner at the inquest into Aaron Anthony Dixon’s death said the tragedy served as a warning to all drivers of the need to check tyre pressures.(12 September)
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A 17-year-old girl died after the 4x4 she was travelling in overturned and plunged into a swollen river. The girl and two other people were airlifted to hospital in a remote area of forestry near the Llyn Brianne reservoir area of Powys at around 5.45pm last night. (6 September)
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The collision happened at about 1530 BST on the A4048 Tredegar to Blackwood road at Argoed, Caerphilly county. (5 September)
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Police have charged a 26-year-old man with causing death by dangerous driving following a collision in May in which an 18-year-old man died. Kyle Wilkins, from Ebbw Vale was pronounced dead at the scene after the car he was a passenger in collided with a parked car near Blackwood on 25 May.
(4 September)
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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.
(8 July)
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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.
(30 April)
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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:
