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David Williams(Image: Family\/ NWP Roads Policing Unit)<\/p>\n‘Words cannot describe how devastated we are, and your family and friends will miss you dearly’, said a statement released following the death of David Emrys “Junior” WilliamsDavid Williams(Image: Family\/ NWP Roads Policing Unit)<\/p>\n
The family of a father-of-three killed on the A55 have described their utter devastation at his loss. David Emrys “Junior” Williams died following a collision which took place on the A55 at Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire<\/a>. A lorry driver was arrested after the body of a male pedestrian was found near Kinmel Park Services last week.<\/p>\n An investigation to establish the cause of the collision, on the westbound carriageway, is underway. The 62-year-old man arrested has since been released whilst inquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n Police have now renewed an appeal for dashcam footage of the incident. For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation, sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, David’s family have paid tribute to the 35-year-old, who came from the Llandudno<\/a> Junction area of Conwy<\/a> county.<\/p>\n They said: “David was the beloved son of Sharon and David, brother to Gemma and James, beloved father to Harry, Henry and Hayden and former partner of Jenny.<\/p>\n “Words cannot describe how devastated we are, and your family and friends will miss you dearly.”<\/p>\n North Wales Police (NWP) is continuing to appeal for witnesses to the collision, which happened during the early hours of Tuesday, April 15.<\/p>\n David was found dead at around 8.15am, North Wales Live reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Officers are particularly keen to hear from anyone travelling in the area between 4.50am and 5.10am.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the NWP Roads Policing Unit issued a statement calling on people to come forward.<\/p>\n “Anybody with information regarding the collision, or anybody who was travelling along the A55 between 4.50am and 5.10am on the westbound carriageway between St Asaph and Abergele and who has dash cam footage, is asked to contact us.”<\/p>\n The road was closed for around eight hours after the incident.<\/p>\n Police have asked people not to speculate online about the incident as this may risk prejudicing potential court proceedings.<\/p>\n Information can be reported to the force via its live webchat service or by calling 101, quoting reference number 25000307865.<\/p>\n Get daily breaking news<\/strong> updates on your phone by joining our WhatsApp community here<\/a>. We occasionally treat members to special offers, promotions and ads from us and our partners. See our Privacy Notice<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Words cannot describe how devastated we are, and your family and friends will miss you dearly’, said a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[23823,12,11746,23824,457,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-42482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-denbighshire","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north-wales","12":"tag-north-wales-police","13":"tag-people","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114384513710131127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}