A controversial new roundabout has reportedly seen three crashes in recent days — including one which left an eight-year-old boy hurt and traumatised.
Angela Williams told WalesOnline she was heading from Hirwaun towards Llwydcoed on New Year's Eve with her husband Kenneth, daughter Emma and grandson Leeroy when another driver appeared not to see the A465 roundabout at Croesbychan and reportedly did not slow down. There was a three-vehicle pileup which left eight-year-old Leeroy with three minor head injuries, a cut neck, and whiplash. "He's traumatised terrible," said Angela. "It's going to take him a while to get over this."
People have commented on social media that there was another accident at the roundabout on the same day and that a third happened on December 23. Others have described near misses. "That bloody roundabout is unreal," read one comment in a Hirwaun Facebook group. "You can literally drive straight through it without even noticing a roundabout, hope everyone is ok but it needs sorted before someone is killed."
