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Lucy John

A car precariously wedged on the side of Bwlch mountain for two years has been finally removed

Video footage has captured the moment a stolen car was removed from a Welsh mountain two years after it was abandoned. Its smashed up remains were found in March 2020 by a passer-by on his morning run off the A4061 Bwlch-y-Clawdd Road, Treorchy. Ever since, it has been laying in a deep ditch on the side of Bwlch Mountain. But now in May 2022, More than two years since it was first discovered, the car has finally been extracted.

Video footage shows teams from South Wales Police and Rhondda Cynon Taf council removing the vehicle. The car can be seen gradually being pulled up the steep mountain as extensive damage is exposed. Read more: The remarkable story of the evacuee who survived the house he was in being bombed during World War Two

The car was found off Bwlch-y-Clawdd Road (Carl Rees)
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