Rhodri Dafydd Miller-Binding and 3 others · Prevention of Future Deaths report

The investigation started on the 12th March 2015 into the death of:
Rhodri Dafydd Miller-Binding, Margaret Elizabeth Challis, Alesha Marie O’Connor,
Corey Bailey Price. Concluding at the end of an inquest which was 12th April 2016 the
conclusion of the inquest was that a Road Traffic Collision.

Just after 10 o’clock in the evening on Friday 6th March 2015 Rhodri Dafydd Miller-
Binding was heading north on the A470 close to the Storey Arms, Brecon when on a left
hand bend in the road he lost control of his vehicle crossing the carriageway and hitting
a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction. He and Corey Bailey Price, a rear seat
passenger in his vehicle were declared deceased at the scene and Alesha Marie
O’Connor, his front seat passenger and girlfriend was conveyed to the Prince Charles
Hospital where she died of her injuries a short time later. Margaret Elizabeth Challis, the
front seat passenger in the vehicle being driven in the opposite direction suffered
extensive injuries and passed away at the Prince Charles Hospital a short while later.

1) The stretch of road along the A470 is subject to a 60 mile per hour speed limit
but is known to be particularly “challenging” stretch of road on which there have
been many serious injury and fatality collisions in the past. The evidence at the
inquest from the Forensic Collision Investigating Officer was clear in that an
advanced warning sign of an approaching left bend would be of significant
assistance in warning motorists of the nature of the road ahead and thereby
reducing the risk of a similar fatality.

Whilst there was evidence at the inquest to support the view that Rhodri Milling-
Binding’s vehicle was being driven at an inappropriate speed, it was not felt that any
form of speed restriction was appropriate at this location – simply an advanced warning
sign of the nature of the road ahead.