Binman saw the wrecked car two days after the four friends disappeared.

A passing killer reportedly saw an overturned car crash that killed four young friends as they returned from a camping trip. It is understood that the height of the vehicle allowed the worker to see the Ford Fiesta, which had left the road and ended up in a flooded ditch.

Jevon Hurst, 16, Harvey Owen, 17, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Hugo Morris, 18, who were doing A-Levels at the same university, traveled to Eriri for a weekend camp. They were reported missing by their worried families in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, when they failed to return home on Monday.

Farmer Rhys Williams, who lives at Garreg Hyll Drem Farm, just 25 meters from where four bodies were found in a partially submerged car, said the weather conditions on Sunday were “brutal”. He told The Mirror that the children were “so unlucky” that they went off the road on a sharp bend, sending the car into a ditch flooded by two days of rain.

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His wife Keris noted on Facebook that North Wales Police had launched an appeal for the missing teenagers. She fought back tears as Williams said: “They were found by a recycling truck at 10am on Tuesday. They were higher up so we could see them. The garbage man told us they called the police. It’s only 25 meters. around the corner from here. I saw the car, but nothing else. They must have been traveling north from Harlech towards Snowdonia. This is one of two paths they could have taken. There are no footprints on the road. Nothing can be seen. A sharp curve: narrow. There were a lot of leaves in that corner. There were one or two accidents before.”

The Fiesta was towed from the scene on Tuesday night. But officers returned to search the area with torches on Wednesday morning. Williams added: “They were so unlucky the car went in. He went into the ditch, right at the bottom of the ditch. It’s a small car. I passed by and didn’t see anything. “Two buses would have passed by before 10am and didn’t see anything.” . They would be there all day on Monday. You have to be in a tall vehicle to see something and you have to look, the passenger. The driver would be looking at the road. The garbage man who saw what was said got something. attention. He was talking on the phone and looked over there. It would be difficult for you to see from the car.”

A curve where a car leaves the road is a point where cell phone signal can disappear, something that is patchy on some networks. Williams said: “Some networks have no signal here. EE is good, but Vodafone is not. On Sunday the water was high. Sunday was brutal. There is always an inch or two of water in the ditch, but it can rise. six feet, level with the machine. Friday and Saturday were bad: the river rose quickly. But by Tuesday morning the level had dropped. They weren’t so lucky. “They could have hit a tree or fence and gone in the wrong direction.”

North Wales Police said the teenagers’ deaths were a “tragic incident”. The road remained closed on Thursday morning. Specialist underwater police teams and marine search vans were also at the scene.