Police appeal for dashcam footage after 4 teen boys are found dead in upside-down car amid camping trip
NORTH WALES, UNITED KINGDOM: On November 23, the North Wales Police appealed for dash cam footage after four teens drowned to death in an overturned car that swerved off the road during a camping trip to Snowdonia in Wales, United Kingdom.
Jevon Hirst, 16, Harvey Owen, 16, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Hugo Morris, 18, all pupils at Shrewsbury College, were found dead on November 21 in the partially submerged silver Ford Fiesta on the A4085 in Garreg, near Tremadog in Gwynedd.
According to the North Wales Police website, "Offficers investigating the fatal road traffic collision involving four young teenagers have issued an appeal for dash cam footage."
"Police are particularly keen on obtaining dash cam footage from anybody who may have been travelling on the A4085 between Penrhyndeudraeth to Beddgelert in either direction between 11am on Sunday, November 19 and 10am on Tuesday November 21 to contact them," the website statement read.
Officers investigating the fatal road traffic collision involving four young teenagers have issued an appeal for dash cam footage.
— North Wales Police (@NWPolice) November 23, 2023
The collision happened on the A4085 near Garreg, Llanfrothen in Gwynedd.
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Police are actively investigating the collision thoroughly, urging individuals with information or dashcam footage to assist and to contact officers at the Roads Crime Unit through the live web chat quoting reference number 23001169854.
Cause of death marked as 'drowning'
In an inquest heard on November 29 of the post-mortem examinations, the provisional cause of death was marked as "drowning," reported BBC.
Senior coroner for north-west Wales, Kate Robertson, said: "All four were traveling in a motor vehicle along the A4085 when the vehicle left the road, leading to their deaths."
The coroner said the investigation was "ongoing."
"Only when it's complete will a full inquest take place," she added. "At this time, speculation is unhelpful and compassion will achieve more than media curiosity."
None of the teenagers' families were present at the four-minute hearing.
According to the Daily Mail, the teenagers were reported missing on November 20 after they failed to return home from the trip. The boys started their journey on November 18, stayed overnight with Hirst's grandfather in the seaside town of Harlech, and started to Snowdonia the following morning.
Teenage boys remembered fondly by close friends and family
After the tragic accident, Owen's mother, Crystal, took to Facebook to share her grief. She wrote, "I feel like I'm in a nightmare I wish I could wake up from but I'm not."
According to BBC Fitchett's girlfriend, Maddi Corfield, who wrote on social media, remembering her late boyfriend, "I'm going to miss you forever. The sweetest and most loving boy I've ever known. I hope you know how much I love you, gorgeous," she wrote.
