CHILLING CCTV images show the Ford Fiesta driven by the tragic group of teens – moments before they are killed in a horror crash in Snowdonia.
Harvey Owen, 17, Jevon Hirst, 16, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Hugo Morris, 18, are pictured zipping through Harlech, North Wales at around 11:30am on Sunday, on their way to the mountains.
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Wilf Fitchett sadly died when the car came off the road
Hugo Morris was travelling with his friends to Snowdonia
Jevon Hirst and the teens had stopped to buy supplies
Tributes have flooded in for Harvey Owen
Just minutes later it is thought the teens were killed when their silver hatchback veered off a wet and windy country lane in the village of Garreg – just two miles away.
The images, caught from a local business’ camera, were taken before the “happy and laughing” lads were seen buying pasta and coal from a Premier Foods for their camping expedition.
Shopkeeper Lucy Jones, 25, told The Sun: “They were happy, laughing and joking around.
“They were arguing, saying ‘I can’t afford this, I can’t afford that.
“But they all seemed to be in a really good mood.
“They weren’t dressed to go walking – they were wearing jeans, shirt, trainers.
“You wouldn’t have thought they were going to walk a mountain if you’d seen them.”
Police fear the horrific accident took place not long after the boys left one of their grandad’s homes – just eight miles away – on Saturday night.
The lads last made contact around midday on Sunday before their phones stopped receiving and sending messages.
It is feared their overturned motor may have laid unnoticed in a watery ditch for almost two days as motorists drove by oblivious.
It wasn’t until 3.10pm on Monday – more than 24 hours later – that cops were told the boys were missing.
They were finally spotted around 10am on Tuesday by binmen who spotted the wreck from their raised cab.
Cops confirmed four bodies had been found in the car, which was partially submerged in water and on its roof in the Porthmadog area.
On Thursday, some family members of the boys travelled from their home town of Shrewsbury to hold a vigil at the crash site.
The boys all studied at a Shropshire school that had already been mourning the loss of two other pupils.
Alfie McCormick, 18, and Ben Worrall, 17, died days apart just weeks ago, and a local priest said the school community was still grieving.
The Reverend Charlotte Gompertz, vicar of a Shrewsbury church, said: “It is a huge sixth form college where all people go round here.
“They have had some tragedies over the last couple of months and this will be devastating for them.
“There were two deaths very recently, a motorbike accident and a suicide.”
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