Pearl Black: Parents call for road traffic law change

The parents of a child killed by a runaway car have told of their anguish over a "loophole" in the law which means some driving offences do not apply on private land.

Pearl Black died in 2017 after Andrew Williams failed to properly apply the handbrake on his Range Rover.

This resulted in the empty vehicle rolling downhill from a driveway and knocking a wall on to her.

No criminal proceedings have been brought against Mr Williams. The Crown Prosecution Service found the case failed to meet the evidential test for prosecution.

The Merthyr Tydfil family's local MP, Gerald Jones, is trying to get a law change through Parliament to extend careless and dangerous driving offences to cover private land next to roads.

Video edited by Alex Knill, BBC News

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