Four teens lost in North Wales ⚠️

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12772971/police-hunt-four-young-men-vanished-Ford-Fiesta-North-Wales.html

Their families must be frantic :(

Posting to spread awareness in case any locals reading.

Oh I hope this is right!
(but you never can tell with twitter)

I'm not sure why you feel it's necessary to quote people and comment on their words in a scornful way tbh. Imagine wading in and trying to police how people respond to a worrying news story... bizarre. I do feel sick at the thought of how worried their families must be - and I'll never be sorry for my empathy or compassion.

Would you do a forest track with a fiesta though, they’re not in a 4X4. And there should be last traced mobile phone signal, if they’ve turned into a track the general area should be apparent.

Yes, that's true about the last cell phone mast that the phones connected to. Hopefully this information is available to the emergency services to help them narrow down their search.

Absolutely pointless catastrophising - I think most of us can associate with what their families are feeling and going through so want to discuss. Others want to raise awareness as that's all they can do to help. I don't think that's catastrophising.

they’ve located the car - NWP on FB.

🤞🏼 I do hope they’re all ok.

I hope they are found safe and well, but the posters who mention the drug issues in the area are correct. The sad fact is the balance of probabilities is weighted towards four young lads enjoying a weekend of freedom, potentially drunk or high, driving like they're invincible - as many do when they're young and newly allowed on the roads - and coming unstuck on the mountain roads.

But just because that's probable doesn't make it definite. There is certainly a chance they've wandered off and got lost, and they have nothing more than a good story to show for it. But four 17 year olds on their own with a car and inexperienced driver in the mountains after telling their parents they were elsewhere and all dropping out of contact simultaneously is not normally a recipe for a happy ending.

I wouldn’t in my small car, especially given the state of most of Wales at the moment (knee deep in mud). But teenage boys are poor at risk perception which I understand is due to how their brains work.

At least the weather is better at the moment for a search. Keeping everything crossed for them.

Crashed or parked?

They might not have gone far along the a track - just pulled off the road (or even into a layby) and be under trees.

It's only today that the public have asked to look out for a silver Fiesta, so before this morning no-one would have known to report that they'd seen one somewhere unusual.

It just says they've located it after info from a member of the public but 'police and other emergency services are on the scene'.

This is the message:

Following information from a member of the public, Officers searching for four missing teenagers in the Porthmadog area have located the vehicle they were travelling in.
Police officers and colleagues from other emergency services are currently at the location and the families of those involved have been kept updated.
Further information will be released when available.

Sorry "at the location", not on the scene!

they don’t say. i could guess from their post but i don’t want to.

(sorry, cross posted)

Indeed. There's always one isn't there.

This is headline news. People are understandably hoping for good news but given the circumstances it's natural to worry about what could have happened.

It could be good news, they can only be so far from the car.

What's "NWP on FB" mean?

They would have said if they’d found the boys in car, so that’s good news.

North Wales Police, posting on facebook

I wasn’t sure but would guess north Wales police

The tracks I saw on street view were perfectly driveable in a Fiesta. Flat with gravel surface. Anyway, the car, at least, has been found.

Thanks!

Flight radar shows a heavy helicopter presence around their home town, so authorities must think there's also a strong possibility they're near home, unless there's something else going on in that area.

Oh God I really hope they are ok. I cannot imagine how scare they must be if they are stuck somewhere and how frantic their parents/ families are