Teenagers who died in Cardiff crash were not being chased by police, says police and crime commissioner
The deaths sparked a riot in Ely which saw cars set alight, fireworks thrown at police and 15 officers injured.
Later on Tuesday South Wales Police said it was "studying CCTV and tracking data from the police vehicle", adding that there were "no police vehicles on Snowden Road" at the time of the crash.The CCTV footage, which has been analysed by BBC Verify, is time-stamped to 17:59 BST on Monday on Frank Road.
"That was not available to the police or to me at the time when we responded to the first thing that happened, which was a road traffic accident.""There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR," he added.
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