Newgale crash miracle as baby saved by cot when car crashed into campsite
A baby was saved thanks to its own cot when a car veered off the road and crashed into a campsite in Wales last night.
Nine people, including passengers of the blue Ford Fiesta, were injured following the crash at around 10.40pm last night. Emergency services rushed to Newgale Campsite in Pembrokeshire and took the injured people to hospital.
In a statement released this morning, Dyfed-Powys Police said two of the victim suffered serious injuries and remain in hospital. Officers are now appealing for witnesses or information as they investigate the incident.
Campsite owner Mike Harris said he had left Newgale just minutes before the accident and did not hear or see anything. But as soon as his staff witnessed the incident, they informed him and called the emergency services. He said he believes one baby was saved as they were in a cot.
A baby was saved by its own cot (PembsHerald/WALES NEWS SERVICE)Mr Harris told Wales Online: "It happened at 10:38pm, I had left the campsite four minutes earlier and didn't hear or see anything. My staff heard the screaming and informed me immediately while they called the emergency services. I think they first thought there would have been fatalities and that's why there were so many [emergency vehicles] here. I think one baby was saved purely by the fact it was in a cot."
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Clare Harris, who runs the campsite with her husband, said the car was "speeding down the hill" and after trying to brake, it "flipped and rolled" several times before crashing in the tent. The baby was in the cot inside the tent, but thankfully they were not injured.
Mrs Harris explained: "The car was speeding down the hill, realised it needed to slow down and tried to brake. It flipped and rolled several times, and crashed into the tent. There was a young child, a baby, in the tent at the time, thankfully they are okay. It's a tragic accident that the police are dealing with, that's all we can say at the moment."
The air ambulance at the campsite (PembsHerald/WALES NEWS SERVICE)A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called yesterday (12 August) at around 22:40 to reports of an incident at Newgale Campsite, Pembrokeshire. "We sent six emergency ambulances, one duty operations manager, one Cymru high acuity response unit and our crews were supported on scene by the emergency medical and retrieval transfer service and search and rescue helicopter. One patient was flown to University Hospital of Wales, four patients were taken by road to Glangwilli Hospital, and one patient was taken by road to Morriston Hospital."
Dyfed-Powys Police said in a statement: "Dyfed-Powys Police is appealing for witnesses or information following a serious collision, which saw a car crash off the A487 and into a campsite in Pembrokeshire last night (Saturday, 12 August). At shortly after 10.30pm several calls were made to emergency services reporting the one-car collision at Newgale Campsite.
"The blue Ford Fiesta, which contained a number of occupants, is believed to have been travelling from the direction of Roch in the St Davids direction when it lost control and veered off the road. It crashed into the campsite, colliding with a number of people and a tent, injuring nine, including passengers in the car.
The alarm was raised at around 10.40pm (PembsHerald/WALES NEWS SERVICE)"The injuries sustained by two of them are described as serious. They remain in hospital at this time. The road was closed to allow investigations and reopened at around 7.45am today.
"Officers are appealing for any information regarding the vehicle, a blue Ford Fiesta, and its occupants. We are especially interested in any dash-cam footage or doorbell footage which may have captured the vehicle being driven from Roch to the scene of the collision at Newgale."
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