Nine injured after car crashes into Pembrokeshire campsite

Emergency services were called to a site in the Newgale area late last night

Newgale Campsite, Pembrokeshire
Author: Jonny FreemanPublished 13th Aug 2023

Nine people have been injured after a car crashed into a campsite in Pembrokeshire.

Emergency services were called to the Newgale area at around 10.40pm last night.

Two of the victims were seriously hurt - and remain in hospital.

No one's been arrested so far.

Dyfed-Powys Police 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 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 7.45am 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 information can call 101, quoting reference DP-20230812-402 or report information on Dyfed-Powys Police's website.

Welsh Ambulance Service statement

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.

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