Cardiff car crash: Hundreds attend St Mellons vigil

Hundreds of radical are attending a vigil for 5 radical progressive successful a clang astatine the weekend.

Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21 and Rafel Jeanne, 24, died aft the clang successful Cardiff and Shane Loughlin, 32, and Sophie Russon, 20, stay successful infirmary successful a captious condition.

All 5 had been connected a nighttime retired successful Newport erstwhile the car is believed to person veered disconnected the A48 into trees.

Friends and household gathered astatine the country successful St Mellons connected Tuesday.

Part of the A48 has been closed to let the crowds, with galore radical carrying balloons, to gather.

Meanwhile, The Independent Office for Police Conduct has decided to analyse constabulary actions pursuing missing idiosyncratic reports aft the crash, it has confirmed.

The women, from Newport, had gone to The Muffler nine successful the Maesglas country of the metropolis precocious connected Friday.

They past travelled 36 miles (58km) to Trecco Bay, a caravan parkland successful the seaside edifice of Porthcawl, Bridgend county, with the 2 men, some from Cardiff.

A Snapchat photograph shared by Ms Ross' sister showed her and Mr Jeanne unneurotic connected the nighttime they went missing.

The radical was past seen successful Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday, but it is not yet wide erstwhile the clang happened.

South Wales Police and Gwent Police judge lone 1 car was progressive successful the clang and confirmed the collision occurred during the aboriginal hours of Saturday.

The nonstop clip volition beryllium confirmed by an investigation.

However, Ms Russon's mum Anna Certowicz said constabulary "didn't look to deliberation it was worthy investigating" astatine the start.

She criticised the constabulary response, saying they could person been recovered sooner if the constabulary had started investigating consecutive away.

The forces said they could not remark portion an probe was pending.

They confirmed a archetypal missing idiosyncratic study was made to Gwent Police astatine 19:34 GMT connected Saturday, with further missing idiosyncratic reports made astatine 19:43 and 21:32.

A further missing idiosyncratic study was made to South Wales Police astatine 17:37 GMT connected Sunday.

The constabulary chopper was requested astatine 23:50 GMT connected Sunday to hunt an country of Cardiff, aft which the Volkswagen was found, they said.

Matthew Pace, 45, and his lad Lewis, 26, told Sky News that they recovered the car successful a wooded country on the A48 conscionable aft midnight connected Sunday morning.

Matthew Pace said a constabulary serviceman arrived soon aft and different bureau subsequently got the chopper to hunt the area. The unit past confirmed the conveyance had been found, helium said.