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A fifth teen who dodged the tragic camping trip road crash that killed four of his pals after pulling out at the last minute has been left in a "really bad way".
The boy had been set to join Jevon Hirst, 16, Hugo Morris, 18, and 17-year-olds Harvey Owen and Wilf Fitchett on their ill-fated expedition to Snowdonia.
All four were found dead in their silver Ford Fiesta after it shot off a winding road and flipped over in a waterlogged ditch in Gwynedd, north Wales, on Tuesday (November 21).
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Hugo's 19-year-old best friend decided at the last minute not to go and has been left stunned and devastated by the tragedy.
Mimi Ropotka, 35, who worked with Hugo at Pret A Manger in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, said the surviving teen cannot take in the events that followed his decision to go on a different camping trip instead and was in a "really bad way".
"He can't believe he has lost his friend so suddenly and tragically,'' she said. "We are devastated by Hugo's death. He was just an amazing person."
Mimi said the café where Hugo worked as a barista had been closed "out of respect" for the teen who "loved the job" and "picked it up quickly". A shopkeeper who saw the teens shortly before the crash said they were "happy and laughing" when they stopped to buy camping supplies.
They called in at Premier Foods in Harlech, a small coastal town where they had stayed with a friend's grandfather the night before the tragedy. Local farmer Rhys Williams, who lives near the crash scene, said the quartet had been "so unlucky".
The ditch where their motor ended up normally only had afoot or two' of water in it but two days of rain had seen it swell to up to 6ft. "They were so unlucky the way the car went in,'' Rhys said. "It has gone into the ditch, low into the ditch.
"It was bad on Friday and Saturday, the river had gone high quickly. But by Tuesday morning the level had come down. They were so unlucky." Post mortems will be held to determine how the boys died.
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