{"id":686980,"date":"2026-07-12T02:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:42:12","slug":"swansea-teenager-charged-with-murder-after-man-18-dies-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686980\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea teenager charged with murder after man, 18, dies in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teenager has been charged with murder following a fatal crash between a car and an off-road bike. <\/p>\n

Police were called to Pen Car Crwn Road, in Gorseinon, Swansea, <\/a>at about 13:00 BST on Thursday, where a man was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Tyler Ford, 18, from Morriston, has been charged with the murder of Ceiran Evans, also 18, from Gorseinon, following the incident.<\/p>\n

He has also been charged with attempted murder of a second man – a 19-year-old who remains in hospital – and is being held in police custody. <\/p>\n

South Wales Police said formal identification had not yet taken place but the family of Ceiran Evans is being supported by specially trained officers.<\/p>\n

Four other men arrested<\/a> as part of the investigation are on police bail. They are:<\/p>\n

An 18-year-old man from Gorseinon arrested on suspicion of murder and Section 18 grievous bodily harm with intent.<\/p>\n

A 33-year-old man from Gorseinon arrested on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n

A 38-year-old man from Gowerton and a 38-year-old man from Mount Pleasant arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.<\/p>\n

Det Ch Insp Danielle Thorne, from South Wales Police, said the investigation was “continuing at pace” and appealed for anyone with information on the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n

She added: “We are aware of social media footage circulating from this incident, and we once again ask that this is not shared for obvious reasons. “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been charged with murder following a fatal crash between a car and an off-road bike.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686980","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=686980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}