Car crashes through holiday campsite injuring nine people with baby saved by cot

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A car has ploughed through a campsite in a horror crash which saw nine people injured – with a baby's life luckily saved by its cot.

Emergency services were called to the Newgale Camping site near the A487 in Pembrokeshire at around 10.40 pm yesterday (August 12).

It is understood the vehicle left the road and struck several people at the campsite including a family with a baby in a travel cot – which the owner of the campsite has credited to saving the little ones' life.

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Emergency services confirmed six people were hospitalised, two of which are said to be seriously injured.

A large emergency service presence attendance including the police, ambulance service, fire and rescue service as well as the air ambulance.

One person was airlifted to a hospital in Cardiff by air ambulance, four were taken to Carmarthen, and one to Swanea’s Morriston Hospital, according to Wales Online.

However, according to reports by Planet Radio, a total of nine people were injured, including the passengers of the vehicle and the campers.

The road was closed overnight while accident investigation work was completed and campsite owner Mike Harris confirmed that it re-opened at around 7 am this morning.

He said that there were around 15 emergency vehicles in attendance and that he believed nine people had been injured in total.

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Mike added: "There are no fatalities and from what I understand none of the injuries are life-threatening but I would say some are certainly life-changing."

Explaining that the vehicle appeared to hit an area where a group of people from several tents had gathered outside their tents to socialise.

Mike said: "It happened at 10:38 pm, 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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Police said the car was a blue Ford Fiesta and was travelling from Roch towards St Davids with a number of occupants inside when it lost control and veered off the road. Officers are appealing for information about the car, its occupants and asked for any footage of it being driven before the incident.

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 the University Hospital of Wales, four patients were taken by road to Glangwilli Hospital, and one patient was taken by road to Morriston Hospital.”

A statement from Dyfed Powys Police said: "[We are] 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).

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"At shortly after 10.30 pm 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 on 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 injuries sustained by two of them are described as serious. They remain in hospital at this time. Officers are appealing for any information regarding the vehicle, a blue Ford Fiesta, and its occupants.

"The road was closed to allow investigations and reopened at around 7.45 am today. 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."

Anyone with any information that could help with the investigation should contact the police online at https://bit.ly/DPPContactOnline, via email on [email protected] or by calling 101 and quoting reference DP-20230812-402

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