{"id":426117,"date":"2026-02-14T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426117\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:16:07","slug":"girl-17-who-died-after-three-car-crash-in-cwmbran-was-funny-kind-and-caring-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426117\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 17, who died after three-car crash in Cwmbran was \u2018funny, kind and caring\u2019 | Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A 17-year-old girl who died in a collision involving three cars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/wales\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> was \u201cfunny, kind and caring\u201d, her brother said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Demi Edmunds was the sole pedestrian in the incident on the A4042 in Cwmbran, Torfaen, Wales, which occurred at about 12.25pm on Thursday afternoon, Gwent police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The teenager from Caldicot was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Her brother Jake said in a tribute published by the force on Saturday: \u201cDemi was the best sister I could\u2019ve ever asked for. She was funny, kind and caring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cMe and her were very close, she was like a best friend to me that I could trust with anything and everything, but she\u2019s no longer with us any more. Hopefully she\u2019s in heaven, somewhere better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police said the family has requested privacy to grieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a shared statement, the family said: \u201cDemi was a beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin and niece. Demi loved her friends, and she was loved by all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Inquiries are ongoing and police have asked anyone with information including CCTV or dashcam footage to get in contact quoting log reference 2600 046 163.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Welsh ambulance service also attended the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old girl who died in a collision involving three cars in Wales was \u201cfunny, kind and caring\u201d,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-426117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}