"I didn’t sleep a wink – I just looked at her all night. I was so proud of her – she was so beautiful. I was, and am, so proud to call her my daughter." These are the powerful words of Eleri James describing the moment she slept alongside her beloved daughter Beca Mai in intensive care.
Beca tragically died six days after she was involved in a crash on the A478 between Narberth and Penblewin in Pembrokeshire on August 20, 2021. She died on August 26 aged 23. The crash – which Eleri, a staff nurse at Glangwli Hospital, believes happened due to Beca having a medical episode behind the wheel – saw her Vauxhall Corsa cross the carriageway and collide with a lorry.
Beca was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff but doctors told her family the impact of the crash would have left the qualified teacher severely brain damaged. As a result of the prognosis Eleri and her two sons Llion, 31, and Tegid, 28, made the heartbreaking decision to bring her treatment to an end.
