A "gentle and kind-hearted" young father died in a crash on the A48. Matthew Woodward, of Barry, was fatally injured at around 4.25am on Friday in a collision involving his motorbike and a car. The driver of the car also died in the crash between Bonvilston and Cowbridge.
One of Matthew's closest friends Oscar Jenkins has paid tribute to the 33-year-old who is survived by three-year-old daughter Amelia and fiancée Lauren Goodman. Oscar, whose fundraiser to support the family has already seen £3,695 in donations, told WalesOnline that Matthew was riding his motorbike home following a lorry-driving shift when the collision happened. Matthew was using the bike because he had sold his car a couple of weeks earlier following a sharp rise in the family's mortgage payments, said Oscar.
Oscar, also 33, added: "Woody was the most gentle and kind-hearted person and that's not just me saying it as a good friend. He was very softly spoken and sensitive without a bad bone in his body. We'd known each other since the start of secondary school in Shrewsbury. He met Lauren at university in Swansea and she's got quite a big family in Barry so he moved down there and they had a child. But he was always the one who made that push to get together with our group of friends from Shrewsbury whenever possible."
