Recovered/Located UK - Cardiff - 3 Women & 2 Men Missing, leaving nightclub approx 2am, Newport, 4 March 2023

[ScalableHeights]

Adsbexchange has gone crazy now... Think I'd better call it a night. Hoping for good news in the morning.
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Sounds likely that ‘doughnut’ is where they found the car. Seems like they knew about the RTA there and suspected it was their car involved. Such a sad outcome, I hope the survivors make a full recovery and find a way to move on from this.

 

[Catdetective]

What a tragic outcome. Hoping the two survivors have a good recovery, physically and psychologically. Being trapped there for so long badly injured with friends who haven’t survived is a thing of nightmares.

 

[bringmeacupoft]

Police find car containing three people dead and two seriously injured

The A48 is closed in both directions at St Mellons after a car was found just after 12am on Monday morning

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[rightsaidfred]

Do we even know if the car belonged to any of the 5, a Tiguan is a family car isn't it not one a younger person would drive

I don't think we do know whose car it was, but Shane was 32 and has three young children on his Facebook cover photo and several of his past Facebook photos.

Looks like he's was on a driving ban
In court from Newport, Abertillery, Risca and Cardiff - Cardiff News

It looks like the car in question wasn't driven at all for a time, before being MOTd a fortnight ago, based on MOT logs and that corresponds with the driving ban

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/results?registration=VE64+ylb

 

[MrsWatson]

Cardiff car crash: police criticised after wreck went unseen for up to 46 hours

Police had called for information about two men and three women who had not been seen after night out

www.theguardian.com

 

[squish]

It’s horrendous that they were stuck trapped and severely injured with dead friends for over 48 hours. I wonder if any of the others would have survived if they had been found sooner.

 

[Ironside]

What a tragic outcome. Hoping the two survivors have a good recovery, physically and psychologically. Being trapped there for so long badly injured with friends who haven’t survived is a thing of nightmares.

They may have been unconscious and completely unaware of their situation.

I wonder will we see what the car looks like now, sometimes I see pictures of the aftermath of a crash and the car is just completely unrecognisable.

 

[squish]

They may have been unconscious and completely unaware of their situation.

I wonder will we see what the car looks like now, sometimes I see pictures of the aftermath of a crash and the car is just completely unrecognisable.

These days, car crashes usually look terrible because modern cars have crumple zones as a safety feature. They’re literally designed to collapse to bear the brunt of any impact. So given this was a serious crash, this car will most likely look like an unrecognisable heap of metal.

 

[Nikynoo]

It was 24hrs, they were last seen 2am ish Saturday and car was recovered midnight Sunday. None the less 24hrs is still horrific to be stuck in car waiting for help.

No, it would be nearly 48 hours.2am saturday morning to Monday just after midnight.

 

[grey345]

What a tragic outcome. I wonder if the police had tracked the phones quicker, the outcome might have been better.

 

[bringmeacupoft]

No, it would be nearly 48 hours.2am saturday morning to Monday just after midnight.

Sorry yes, I did not sleep well last night

 

[Nikynoo]

This might narrow down where the RTA took place.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1632617858197757956

 

[Nikynoo]

Sorry yes, I did not sleep well last night

quite understandable . I am so sorry to hear this news this morning.

 

[MrsWatson]

Terrible tragedy.

 

[rightsaidfred]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1632617858197757956

This is the roundabout in question
A48 · United Kingdom

If they had decided to take the girls back to Newport from Llanederyrn then the most logical route would be the A48(M) (screenshotted). The place they were found was the roundabout on the right hand side of the screenshot; you can see from the map that there's a sliproad off the A48(M) that offers easy access to it

 

[Nikynoo]

live updates here - Police find car containing three people dead and two seriously injured

 

[bringmeacupoft]

This is the roundabout in question
A48 · United Kingdom

If they had decided to take the girls back to Newport from Llanederyrn then the most logical route would be the A48(M) (screenshotted). The place they were found was the roundabout on the right hand side of the screenshot; you can see from the map that there's a sliproad off the A48(M) that offers easy access to it

There must be very little evidence of the collision it doesn’t appear to be remote, looks a well used road/route. Yet they potentially sat there unnoticed for 2 days.

 

[wizardizzo76]

There must be very little evidence of the collision it doesn’t appear to be remote, looks a well used road/route. Yet they potentially sat there unnoticed for 2 days.

Yes I thought the same. There's a few trees about but nothing like what you'd call dense undergrowth, and surely there would be some tyre marks in the grass where they left the road?

 

[Sarahlou]

Wow this is unbelievable, Eve's sister died in a car crash in 2015.

Eve mentions her on her FB in case anyone wonders if it's the same girl.

'My daughter died five years ago but the men responsible are free'

Emma Borg's 19-year-old daughter Xana Doyle died in a car crash when the driver was high on drugs

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[rightsaidfred]

There must be very little evidence of the collision it doesn’t appear to be remote, looks a well used road/route. Yet they potentially sat there unnoticed for 2 days.

Yes it is - thousands of people must have driven by and been none the wiser. The police helicopter didn't go over that area on the initial run c. 9pm last night.

Last night someone on this thread referenced the episode of Reported Missing where a missing man was found in his crashed car in dense undergrowth on a roundabout. Prophetic really, as we seem to have the exact same scenario here.

Assuming they came off the A48(M) sliproad just before the roundabout - It's a road where (from memory) the speed limit drops very rapidly from 70mph on the A48(M) to 50mph on the slip road and (this bit I'm certain of) 30mph just before the roundabout. It's got the advance warning tickmarks to tell you a speed limit change is coming up too. If you fail to heed the reducing speed limit signs you could easily end up going straight onto the roundabout at speed.

They must have been invisible from the road; whether or not there were any skid marks will determine if the driver tried to brake.