Teenage driver 'trying to break up a fight' plows car into a crowd of young people leaving two women seriously injured
Two women were seriously injured after a teenager used his car as a "weapon" in an attempt to run over a rival who was fighting his friend, per reports. A brawl broke out outside a nightclub in Newport city center on April 29 when 19-year-old McCauley Cox deliberately drove into a crowd of young people. Cox's car was seen approaching a crowd of pedestrians in a CCTV footage released Wednesday outside the Courtyard nightclub when some patrons began to fight. The Ford C-Max carrier hit one of them before people start kicking and hitting the vehicle and confronted Cox on either side.
A few seconds later, Cox accelerated the car and climbed the pavement before plowing into a group of people, running over Sophie Poole and Emma Nicholls in the process. The unsuspecting victims were sitting on a curb on the pavement. After running them over, Cox proceeded to reverse his car and race ahead once more over their bodies before reversing down the street once again. Partygoers at the scene began smashing his windscreen and attacking from both sides, prompting Cox to accelerate out of the road at full speed, thereby missing other pedestrians by inches, Daily Mail reports.