'My daughter was killed minutes from home. I will never forget the call'

KEELY Morgan had spent the day with her family in the May sunshine on Barry Island when, after returning to her home in Caerau, Cardiff, she told her mother she was going for a walk.

- RUTH MOSALSKI

It was something the teenager often liked to do, so her mum Sian didn’t worry. But as time went on, she sent a text to remind her daughter not to be too late home.

But she didn’t hear back, and as the clock ticked on, her mother wanted her home and called again and again.

‘The call was eventually answered by a police officer, who insisted on knowing where Sian was. While Sian repeatedly asked what was going on, the police officer just responded she'd be there in five minutes.

When she arrived at the family home, she sat Sian down and said her daughter had been hit by a car and had died. Keely was just 15.

It was on May 1, 2023, that Keely had gone out for a walk when, as she made her way across a zebra crossing on Heol Trelai in Caerau, with her headphones connected to her iPad, she was hit by a car.

People living nearby heard the bang and went outside to find the car's driver clearly emotional and saying “I have just hit her - I am so sorry” and “I didn’t see her. It was too dark. She came out of nowhere. I hit her”.

Keely was lying on the side of the road with significant injuries to her head and face.

Passersby tried to save her life. Some tried to give CPR, but she died at the side of the road just four minutes from her home at 10.02pm.

Recounting what happened on that night, Sian said: “Keely often liked to go out for a walk. When she was isolating so much when she was having her [kidney] transplant and having dialysis, she loved going on walks, just on her own, listen to her music and just walk.

“Keely headed out, it must have been about 7pm, it wasn’t too late, but then I didn’t hear from her so I remembered sending her a text telling her not to be late and she needed to be home.