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Ben Summer

Two brave friends had to steer car themselves when mum passed out behind the wheel

Two brave teenagers had to steer a car to safety when the older boy's mother lost consciousness behind the wheel. Catrin Williams was driving her 13-year-old son Hari Thomas and his friend Dylan Pritchard-Evans back to their home near Cardigan after football training last year at Swansea City's academy when she told Hari she was feeling ill.

They were in the fast lane of a busy M4 near junction 45, in pitch-black conditions on a winter evening, when Catrin passed out. Thinking quickly, Hari leaned over and started steering the car, with Dylan instructing him from the back seat.

"Hari took the wheel and I told him to put the hazard lights on," Dylan told WalesOnline. "I wasn’t really focusing on the cars outside around us, I was just focusing on the people inside. At the time, it didn’t seem so mad, but saying the story out loud it seems unreal."

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