28-year-old has been charged as a part of an investigation right into a crash during which three folks had been killed.
Joel Samuel Lia, of Rumney in Cardiff, will seem at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court docket on Wednesday charged with driving with out a licence or insurance coverage in Porthcawl on March 4.
The offences passed off shortly earlier than, however are usually not related to, the deadly crash that occurred at 2.03am on the A48(M) close to the St Mellons space of Cardiff and entails the identical automobile.
Driver Rafel Jeanne, 24, and passengers Darcy Ross, 21, and Eve Smith, 21, died within the collision whereas the 2 remaining passengers, Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, had been injured however survived.
The 5 had been found on Monday March 6, round 46 hours after the crash occurred.
The size of time taken by Gwent Police and South Wales Police to seek out the group, who had been reported lacking by members of the family, is the topic of an ongoing investigation by the Unbiased Workplace for Police Conduct (IOPC).
The group had been on an evening out to The Muffler social membership in Maesglas, Newport, on Friday March 3 and had then travelled in a Volkswagen Tiguan slightly below 40 miles to the Trecco Bay caravan park in Porthcawl the place they’re mentioned to have spent a while in one of many caravans on website.
A noise grievance was made to the park’s safety lodge concerning the group, PA information company understands.
The group left the positioning a short while later and had been final seen at about 2am within the Pentwyn space of Cardiff dropping off a sixth member of their group.
In response to Gwent Police, the primary lacking particular person report was made at 7.34pm on the Saturday.
The drive didn’t problem a public lacking particular person attraction till 11pm on Sunday.
The automobile was noticed simply after midnight on Monday morning having veered off a slip street approaching a roundabout and are available to relaxation in a small copse of timber, shielded from the view of different motorists, close by homes and a busy backyard centre.
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