4 girls die in car crash

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I can't do links, so not sure if this will work

this happened on a road 5minutes from me

I know the road really well, such a waste of live.

link was fine. poor kids and how awful for their families,what a devasting xmas it will be for them. very

Yes, I saw this on the cover of the Argus this morning, and the Western Mail. Such a terrible tragedy.

6 teenagers in a car?

I feel for the girls parents but I bet the boy who was driving is not blameless

The police have already ruled out the road conditions

The girls weren't wearing seatbelts.

All those with teenagers, tell them it is not cool to be dead after a car or bike accident because they didn't want to wear a seat belt or helmet.

So sad for the families.

I agree with NAB3, please let everyone who has teenagers see this.

It has absolutly (sp?) devestated the local area, but knowing the road, it is understanding (to a degree) how someone can go off the road.

Prayers for the parents and family of these girls.

how terrible, but it seems to me that there were four pasengers in the back of a corsa, so that must be one too many, whereas as two front passengers survived, i think too many teenagers cram as many as will fit into cars.

Just makes me feel sick reading these incidents. You bring your beloved children into the world to loose them in a blow of a candle. So young , such a waste of life, I look at my 2 girls now and think I just coudnt bare it if something happened to them.

Was it the speed ?

I remember feeling very uncool with a seatbelt on and withought parents around , you think ahh well they wont know. Its someth8ng that has to be drummed in and in and in.

I saw this on the news

When will people understand about seatbelts though? I walked to school the other day and counted 6 out of 30 cars where occupants weren't wearig seatbelts. One of these guilty cars had two children wearing our school uniform who had just been picked up

Hiya Jo, we use that road regularly to go to crickhowell and it is a nightmare. it is a waste, i just hope something is learnt from it

A girl from dd1's work was killed in a road accident last week, her boyfriend was driving. It happens with depressing frequency where we live in Scotland. In one case, two boys were said to have died instantly but in fact friends of theirs who were on a bus involved in the accident saw those two boys burn to death, screaming and fighting to get out of the car. Horrendous.

They always think it won't happen to them The boys walked away, didn't they? If they'd only taken 3 girls, and they'd all put their belts on, they probably would have done too. So so sad. The driver will have this on his conscience for the rest of his life.

melsy, what you said is exactly how I always feel when an accident like this happens - all those years of protecting them gone for nothing in one careless moment.

It probably was speed - apparently the road was dry and not icy so the driver must have taken a bend too fast and gone off the edge (something I read said the car was driving on the wrong side of the road for about 100 yards) There are roads like that round here too.

A girl from dd1's work was killed in a road accident last week, her boyfriend was driving. It happens with depressing frequency where we live in Scotland. In one case, two boys were said to have died instantly but in fact friends of theirs who were on a bus involved in the accident saw those two boys burn to death, screaming and fighting to get out of the car. Horrendous.

Sorry about the double post - the internet here is playing silly B's.

"The road crossed an open common and there were often animals on the roadside" - same here - there was a fatal crash near here involving a Land Rover when a sheep wandered into the road in front of it.

in ireland there a some very good tv ads for this kind of thing directly aimed at the 16 - 34 age group presently on the tv after a series of young road deaths .
and the music to them is "get it on" marc boland and it really is very enforcing and sticks on the brain.

boy raing is a fact of life , how many of us didnt sit beside someone who thought he was a great driver at whatever age. it needs to be a school thing , which they are proposing in ireland.

some commentator on irish radio suggested equating fast driving to low sexual esteem, being quite blunt and even crude about it to these young drivers - drive fast come slow or something was the phrase being proposed. ie driving fast is a failing quality not a macho one at all.

the "get it on" refers to the seatbelt

hello you and sue too, fio

I will catch up with you one of these days, promise!

XXX

hermykne, that sounds like a good line to take with teens (as long as they'll listen )

BMIM, we often go up there for Brecon, its an awful road anyway, especially that stupid bend (you must know the one lol). Worst thing is I am sure its a 60mph road, and you have got to be crazy to be doing that sort of speed. We have traveled back from Brecon to ours late at night, and its scary.

Still can't get my mind around it. It is such a common road that is used as a shortcut for all the locals tbh, and I suppose it brings it all back home.

When I was about 15, a friend & I went joyriding with some boys and up a country lane the car turned over. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt but we thought we were sooooo clever at the time. I am dreading my kids being teenagers. My parents warned me but did I listen. Nope.

Me too, UCM - in my case it was a soft-top Land Rover and we were all thrown clear - in an ordinary car we might well have been killed (no seat-belts at all in those days). My front teeth were smashed but that was all.

Most kids make stupid mistakes growing up but luckily most of them aren't fatal.

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