A married couple who suffered life-changing injuries when a drug driver smashed into their motorcycle remain in different hospitals 70 miles apart more that seven weeks after the crash. Richard and Alison Amner were travelling on their motorcycle along Ferry Road in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, on the evening of Saturday, July 16, when the collision happened.
Shortly before 7pm, a man named Mathew Jason Bell, who was driving a car in the opposite direction, decided to overtake a van on what was described in court as a “ridiculous” bend and crashed straight into the motorcycle. You can keep up to date with the latest Carmarthenshire news by signing up to the local newsletter here.
Both riders were thrown from the bike. Mr Amner, aged 58, sustained life threatening and life changing injuries, including a triple open fracture of his femur, while his wife, aged 55, was thrown with such force as a result of the crash that she landed on a raised patch of gravel located on the other side of a garden wall. As the couple lay in agony, Bell tried to drive away, with only the poor state of his crashed car stopping him from doing so.
