Drunken Ricky (30) drinks alcohol while driving and causes fatal crash. Mother of deceased Dafydd (18) makes emotional appeal | Abroad

“Dafydd, like most young men, thought he was invincible,” Dafydd’s mother Emma Hughes, 35, from Caerphilly, Wales, told the BBC. “He made the wrong decision to get in the car that morning. But it wasn’t Dafydd’s choice that Ricky drank the whole drag, drove too fast or drove on the wrong side of the road. “I will never forgive Ricky for getting behind the wheel that day in the condition he was in.”

The tragedy happened in May last year in Shirenewton, Wales. Dafydd drove Davies and two others to a dog show, but the driver was clearly intoxicated. Not only had he drunk alcohol, he had also smoked cannabis. How bad he was is evident from a Snapchat video that the occupants made of him while he was behind the wheel with a can of cider. They clearly thought it was funny.

But Davies, who did not have a driver’s license and was not insured, at one point veered from his lane and crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle. He was driving about 80 km/h, about 16 km/h faster than the speed limit. No one was wearing a seat belt. “Dafydd never wore a seat belt,” his mother admits. “If he had worn it, Dafydd might still be there.” The young man suffered fatal head wounds and died on the spot.

Davies was sentenced to eight years in prison in February and is also banned from driving for 12 years. But time does not heal Emma’s wounds, says the mother of six. “I still feel dull.” She is now coming out with her story in the hope that someone will learn lessons from the accident that took her eldest son from her life.

“If someone can listen and not do what they did, then their families don’t have to feel what we feel every day,” she said. “I want young people to realize what damage can be done even if they are not driving, but are in the car with someone who does not have a driver’s license and is not responsible enough to drive. Please don’t go with them.”

Emma makes a clear appeal: “If you think someone is driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, call the police,” it says. “Don’t put your families through what we are going through right now. You have a whole life ahead of you, don’t waste it because it can all change in the blink of an eye. Life is so precious, and Dafydd didn’t deserve this. There’s a hole in my heart where Dafydd should be. We will never be the same again.”

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