Newport crash: Mystery as cops hunt SIXTH passenger who left car shortly before Cardiff horror smash which killed three
COPS are searching for a sixth person who had been travelling in a car shortly before it crashed and killed three friends and left two others seriously injured.
Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21 and Rafel Jeanne, 24, died in the horror crash.
Meanwhile, Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, are seriously injured in hospital.
The group had been enjoying a night out and were spotted at the Muffler nightclub in Newport, Wales before they vanished.
Later that night they were involved in a horror smash when the white VW Tiguan they were travelling in crashed near Cardiff, Wales in the early hours of Saturday.
Now it's been revealed that cops are investigating reports there was a sixth person in the car - and are probing an alleged altercation at a caravan park.
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The clash reportedly took place at Trecco Bay caravan park in Porthcawl, where the group drove after leaving the nightclub 40 miles away in Newport.
Before the horror smash, the group is understood to have dropped off a sixth passenger, an unnamed man, at his home in Cardiff after leaving the site.
A source who did not want to be named told The Sun: “The girls are very well known at Mufflers, their families all drink here.
“Two of the girls just popped in to use the toilets. I've never seen the men before, they don’t come in here.
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“We heard they went to the caravan park and there was some sort of altercation, we don’t know what that was, but they had to leave.
“There was another man in the car who wanted to go home. They dropped him off and then at some point crashed."
A police spokesperson said: "While that investigation is ongoing we will not be commenting further."
Friends Sophie, Eve, and Darcy arrived at the bar and club at around 11pm on Friday.
Inside, the trio met Shane and Rafel, whom the girls had never met, before all five went to Shane's family caravan in Trecco Bay, Porthcawl - around 36 miles from Newport.
Darcy had posted photos of her and Rafel partying that night to Snapchat.
But haunting CCTV shows the car the group had been travelling in at around 2am in the Llanedeyrn area of Cardiff where they reportedly dropped off an unnamed man.
The group may have travelled around 85 miles in total before coming off the road - but they remained undiscovered for 48 hours.
Police say they only received the first missing person report at 7.34pm on Saturday.
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Further missing persons reports came in at 7.43pm, 9.32pm that night before South Wales Police received a fourth at 5.37pm on Sunday.
Cops from Gwent Police discovered the car around 12.02pm on Monday.
