Connect with us
Advertisement
Advertisement

News

Haverfordwest: Boy racer arrested for dangerous roundabout drift

Published

on

Caught on camera: Dangerous stunt on Cardigan roundabout

Caught on camera: Dangerous stunt on Cardigan roundabout

RESIDENTS of Hermitage Grove, in Haverfordwest, were left unimpressed this week ends at the antics of a boy racer drifting around the A40 Cardigan roundabout, which back on to their homes.

The noisy and inconsiderate driver, put himself and others in danger according to one neighbour, who posted a dramatic video of the incident on Facebook.

“He did it at 9pm on Saturday night, and at 12.38pm on Sunday morning. At 9pm the road was still quite busy.

“I find it disgusting that some people have found this funny [on Facebook].

“I have been told who the driver is, and I understand the incident has been reported to the police.

“Im not saying the control of the car wasn’t good, but it should be done off-road. That road can be used for emergencies to the hospital. The driver could cause accidents, kill himself or others.”

On Thursday, (Nov 5), Pembrokeshire Roads Policing Unit announced on Twitter: “A 20yr old male has been arrested and a vehicle seized in connection with a video posted on @PembsHerald this week.”

The police added: “Enquiries are ongoing.”

38 Comments

38 Comments

  1. Mr Octane

    November 4, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    I find it highly hilarious people need to get a life and stop snitching on people just because they are jelous that they are stuck in a lifeless marriage with children and their life is over.

  2. Mr Octane

    November 4, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    Whoever snitches on the driver needs to be found and their life made hell horrible little cretins. Can’t stand people that are not team players sad little person that’s reported this. In the words of Jeremy Clarkson “take them out and execute them infront of their family”

  3. Donkey Kong

    November 4, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    Look at it this way old man. Drifting is a sport, one that costs alot of money to fund. With not many tracks around the country that allow this “sport” the youngsters of today (some idiots some sensible).. use the roads as a training area. this has been for the last 10 years and nothing will change. What you have done is lost a boys licence that actually had some quality car control. now he will probably end up like you. with a boring life.

  4. Omar

    November 4, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    Lmao the roads may have been busy at 9 but evidently they’re empty at half 12 in the morning.

    You’d have to be deaf and blind to come into a collision with this vehicle, you can hear the exhaust note echoing so it’s clearly extremely loud, combined with the screeching tyres, it works in the same way a siren does on emergency services.

    Clearly the driver is skilled. Nobody is at harm. If you can drift a roundabout, you can exit the drift and move out if the way in due time if required.

    The only real case she has Is that she would need sleep for work or something…but that’s not the case as she’s a full time slummy mummy with nothing better to do.

  5. KG

    November 4, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    None of the above people that have commented would find this as snitching or funny if it would of been you at the end of the road that this car had met!

  6. John Vaughan

    November 4, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    I think this is crap. I am a life member of the conservative club and if the cops can’t stop this, then I will. I am super hero. My name? Call me The Minge!

  7. Dave

    November 4, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    Come on this is a nice bit of driving! He isnt out of control!

    Im sure we can guess the window it was filled from… Bloody peeping tom needs sorting out

  8. Crash Bandicoot

    November 4, 2015 at 2:16 pm

    Out of control. beautiful use of words…
    Would have crashed of it was ‘out of control, morons. Clearly uneducated and blind…

  9. Joe

    November 4, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    What an absolute lad! Brilliant drift control! To everyone whos giving him negative comments give him a medal instead as that takes skill! Stop being negative and throw some appreciation his way!

  10. Joe

    November 4, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    @ KG:
    Get over yourself! The guys knew EXACTLY what he was doing and there would be no incident!

  11. Donkey Kong

    November 4, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    @ Joe:
    Amen Brother.

  12. Toilet Duck

    November 4, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    Kids got skills! That took some serious practice, thought & control. Very impressive. 9.5/10 on the drift front. I’ve tried it, and it’s not as easy as it looks! Someone sign him up to a race team…

  13. kevin Fitmaurice-brown

    November 4, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    Herald staff hard up for news probably. How else would they know where to be ? Or infringed images.

  14. ronald race

    November 4, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    we get this boy racers in fishguard police has been told and all the police says is well we have to we can not get them more like thay dont want to get then to much paper work

  15. Dave Johnson

    November 4, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    Being the owner of a R33 nissan skyline, I often get accused of being a boy racer, the difference between me and them is simple. I recognise that roads are for driving. Its as simple as that, I want to go for a skid, I go to a track day, and don’t use my shitbox “drift” car on public highways endangering people who could get in my way, because as in control as the kid maybe, you have to recognize that the majority of regular drivers are crap and they are more likely to plow into you because they don’t know how to react.. Keep drifting where it belongs, on the track. All the other “racers” on here praising the lad, need to grow up.

  16. Donkey Kong

    November 4, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    @ Dave Johnson:
    suck an egg you boring pillock.

  17. Pete

    November 4, 2015 at 4:47 pm

    THAT ENTRY ANGLE, top man, drifting through a busy town centre, or round a roundabout mid weekday maybe not as I know, that tyres pop, things go wrong, but if the only person who could get fucked up is himself, let it be

  18. Richard

    November 4, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    What a dick.

  19. judas iscariot

    November 4, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    His name is Same and he works for a car sales firm in Haverfordwest. Little Prick needs to lose his license and his job and you tossers commenting defending are obviously his friends and brain dead tossers like him.

  20. Paul

    November 4, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    So anyone who’s not into Motorsport is not a team player and should have their life made hell. I’m amazed by some of the moronic comments on here, everyone’s entitled to a quiet nights sleep and for the public roads to be used sensibly.

    And before any of you idiots want to accuse me of being some boring cretin I get my petrol Highs doing a real mans Motorsport – rallying!! And if that means travelling the country to get to events well that’s the cost of this kind of sport

  21. Tommy

    November 4, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    Lovely bit of drifting sad thing is these car guys have nowhere where they’re allowed to meet up and do they’re own thing due to the councils , police and other whinging old gits why not allow them to use an area away from housing to have a bit of fun in peace but of course that would be the easy option

  22. Master Bateman

    November 4, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @ Joe:
    It’s people like you that make me hate people like him. You are all cock snoggers!

  23. Master Bateman

    November 4, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    @ Mr Octane:
    Be quiet you utter moron!

  24. Pugh

    November 4, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    @ Mr Octane:
    Dude, I live soaked in adrenaline, but I’ve seen a lot of people not come home after racing in controlled conditions on a track, let alone a public road early in the night.
    so yeah, just saying, people die racing, people also die on public roads because they think they’re good drivers. So as much as we all like racing around and following rallies, these people complaining aren’t wrong.

    Also, my sex life is fucking bangin’

  25. Ben

    November 4, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    Snitches, 10/10 drift even the police and the courts will deduct points from his license because of that execution may even receive an MBE. Better than turning a blind eye to the greater dangers of night clubs and bars that seem to be ignored.

  26. Pugh

    November 4, 2015 at 11:37 pm

    @ Ben:
    All I hear is annoying twats prrrraping up and down the hill behind me, It used to be everytime I hear that I knew the guy was doing like 80 over a hump bridge before hitting a tight bunch of corners at like 3am when I lived in Gelli.
    Something that again you shouldn’t do, but at least needs more than basic rear wheel spin control.
    nowadays, in town, I know it’s some twat with a slammed car that has probably never been on a track going back and forth on the road at 30 echoing all over the place at least 10 times a night, keeping everyone up.

    Yeah I’d snitch on that cockwomble for being 10/10 annoying as fuck, much like the loud twats that come out of the clubs and pubs.

  27. Harry

    November 5, 2015 at 1:19 am

    Simle as…
    1. Excellent driving / good fun / why not..

    2. Anybody negative about this for any reason.. ‘F*ck off’ you miserable boring twat / twats, get a life haha

  28. Paul

    November 5, 2015 at 10:02 am

    This fool is the type of clown that gives good drift drivers a bad name…….he plays around on public roads in his high powered car.irrespective of what skill he/she may have.wtf you driving like a tool on a public road.if your serious enough about your sport keep it on the track..and as for the comments about whinging about noise..next time you see a shift worker or hospital or emergency sevice waorkers looking knackered, it might just be that clowns like this keep them awake as they work shifts……this clown carries on its just a matter of time before he/she gets too cocky and ends up in an A&E bed if he/she is lucky enough to survive.and obviously doesnt give a crap about the LEGAL drivers on the road otherwise he/she wouldnt drive like a knob on a busy roundabout……..hope he/she gets what he deserves and gets taken off the road before he/she seriously injures or worse kills someone else, he/she obviosuly doesnt care about him/herself so why should we? moron.keep it on the track.otherwise your just another boy racer who cant grow up…..

  29. Paul

    November 5, 2015 at 10:15 am

    @ Omar:
    Like to see him/her come out of a drift in a hurry if theres an emergency vehicle incoming onto the roundabout…..the fool wont be able to hear the sirens due to the screaming of his/her own car.he WILL NOT have the time to correct his angle, reduce his speed and get off the roundabout in a safe method he drops his speed in a hurry he will lose it. he so much as taps his brakes he will lose it.he slams his brakes on he will lose it…………….but then who am i obviously someone who doesnt know how to drive as people think their Ayrton Senna’s……and i lay odds he would scream like a baby f he has to get cut of out the car……WHEN he has an accident…if your serious about your spot, you willd find a track doesnt matter where it is like other real drivers they go to track days…….

  30. internet user

    November 5, 2015 at 11:22 am

    Ha this is ridiculous this was probably recorded 10 years ago looking at the state of the video I’m sure it did the rounds 5 or 6 years ago anyone else see it?

  31. TheLMan

    November 5, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    probably the idiot known as Daniel Balers Bowley on facebook . Owns DB tyre services, constantly doing this cars only last him a month at the max. deserves to lose his license!!!

  32. TheLMan

    November 5, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    TheLMan wrote:

    probably the idiot known as Daniel Balers Bowley on facebook . Owns DB tyre services, constantly doing this cars only last him a month at the max. deserves to lose his license!!!

    dbtyreservices.tumblr.com

  33. Paris

    November 5, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    And would people find it funny if he had killed someone?

  34. the stig

    November 5, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    Cheers for all your comments. It was only a bit of fun.

    Same time next week 😉

  35. Phil

    November 6, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    I worked for the local paper for 25 years and at least once a year, often around christmas time there would be a photo of a mangled car and another grieving family preparing themselves for a funeral. It was nearly always a boy in his twenties driving what he thought to be his pride and joy hatchback “racer”. And do you know what – seconds before the engine block came through the dash board into his chest – he was still convinced he was invincible and totally in control of the car. I knew two personally having coached them in sport. They were great lads who probably thought they “were in control” but actually the adrenaline of speed was in control of them.

  36. Tomos

    November 7, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    @ Mr Octane:
    I think you’ll find he was JOKING, he hates silly little boys playing with their toys as much as anyone.
    Recent news had a n idiot speed merchant ina Nissan jailed for FOUR YEARS, good thing too if it encourages better driving standards

  37. Tomos

    November 7, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    I see several of these comments are made by some driving too quickly car club members (whatever you call yourselves) worryingly many contain veiled threats – I urge the Herald to forawrd their details too to the Police Force – the Herald cannot condone threats can they?

  38. Tomos

    November 10, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    I urge others also to complain to

    http://www.ombudsman.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Community

Community gathers to remember Corrina Baker

Published

on

Lanterns and balloons released in emotional acts of remembrance

FAMILY, friends and members of the local community came together to remember Corrina Baker at a series of moving events held across west Wales this week.

Corrina’s funeral took place on Monday (Dec 15), a month after her death, with a public service held at St Mary’s Church. Mourners lined the route as her coffin was carried on its final journey in an elegant horse-drawn carriage, before a private cremation later took place at Parc Gwyn crematorium in Narberth.

Later that evening, shortly after 6:00pm, friends and relatives gathered at the Quayside in Cardigan for the first of two acts of remembrance to celebrate her life. Lanterns were lit and released into the night sky above the town as some of Corrina’s favourite songs were played.

On Tuesday afternoon (Dec 16), a second tribute was held near the location where Corrina was found. Twenty-one pink balloons — one for each year of her life — were released into a clear blue sky, each carrying personal messages in her memory.

Floral tributes continue to be laid at the Netpool, while a GoFundMe appeal set up in Corrina’s memory has raised more than £2,300. She has been described by those who knew her as “funny and bright”.

Dyfed-Powys Police have confirmed that their investigation into the circumstances surrounding Ms Baker’s death is ongoing. A 29-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail while inquiries continue.

(Photos: Stuart Ladd/Herald)

Continue Reading

Community

Six untaxed vehicles seized in Milford Haven police operation

Published

on

SIX untaxed and abandoned vehicles were seized during a joint roads policing operation in Milford Haven on Tuesday morning.

Officers from the Milford Haven Neighbourhood Policing and Prevention Team (NPPT) worked alongside the Pembrokeshire Roads Policing Team as part of targeted enforcement across the town.

In addition to the vehicle seizures, a number of traffic offence reports were issued to drivers during the operation.

Police said the action formed part of ongoing efforts to improve road safety and tackle vehicle-related offences in the Milford Haven area.

Continue Reading

Community

Candlelit carol service brings community together in Milford Haven

Published

on

ST KATHARINE and St Peter’s Church in Milford Haven hosted its annual Candlelit Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, bringing together members of the community for a traditional celebration of Christmas.

The service featured readings from the Mayor of Milford Haven, representatives of the Soroptimists, Milford Haven Amateur Operatic Society, the Headteacher and Head Prefects of Milford Haven School, Milford Haven Town Band, and NCI Wooltack Point.

Music for the evening was provided by organist Seimon Morris, Milford Haven Town Band and the Milford Haven Cluster Band, whose performances added to the atmosphere of the candlelit service.

The Friends of St Katharine and St Peter’s Church thanked all those involved and wished the community a happy Christmas.

Continue Reading

Community2 hours ago

Community gathers to remember Corrina Baker

Lanterns and balloons released in emotional acts of remembrance FAMILY, friends and members of the local community came together to...

Crime8 hours ago

Teenager charged following rape allegation at Saundersfoot nightclub

Incident reported at Sands Nightclub in early hours of Sunday DYFED-POWYS POLICE is investigating an allegation of rape following an...

Crime10 hours ago

Milford Haven man jailed after drunken attack on partner and police officers

A MILFORD HAVEN man who launched a violent drunken assault on his partner before attacking two police officers has been...

Crime12 hours ago

Court hears historic child sex abuse claim emerged after ‘tarot reading’

Judge reminds jurors there is no standard timeframe for victims to come forward as trial reaches final stage A JURY...

Crime1 day ago

Rape allegation investigated at Saundersfoot nightclub

Police appeal for witnesses after incident reported in early hours of Sunday DYFED-POWYS POLICE are investigating an allegation of rape...

Crime1 day ago

Milford ground worker denies historic child sex abuse charges at Crown Court

Accused tells jury claims did not happen as trial hears evidence about alcohol use and alleged controlling behaviour A MAN...

Crime2 days ago

Three inmates deny murder of Lola James killer at Wakefield prison

THREE prisoners have denied murdering child killer Kyle Bevan, who was found dead in his cell at HMP Wakefield. Bevan,...

international news2 days ago

Dyfed-Powys Police reassure communities after Bondi Beach mass shooting

Officers monitor local tensions following terror attack on Jewish event in Sydney DYFED-POWYS POLICE have issued reassurances to communities across...

News3 days ago

Search under way in Pembroke Dock for missing man Lee

Coastguard, RNLI and rescue helicopter launched as fears grow he entered the water A MAJOR search and rescue operation is...

News3 days ago

Search under way in Pembroke as man reported missing

Rescue teams battle worsening weather ahead of amber rain warning A MULTI-AGENCY search and rescue operation is under way in...

Popular This Week