Traffic Wales is “urgently investigating” how footage of a crash on the A55 ended up on social media. A section of the dual carriageway at Llanfairfechan was closed for several hours yesterday after a collision involving a car towing a caravan and a lorry.

Emergency services attended and a crane was brought in to help with the recovery as large delays were reported in the area. What appears to be CCTV footage has since been shared on the likes of Twitter and TikTok showing the car and caravan careering over a roundabout before colliding with the lorry, says Deeside.com.

One such post was shared by former North Wales Live employee Aaran Lennox, now a self-described “media personality”. North.Wales queried the origin of the footage after noting it appeared to be a video recording of a computer screen displaying the URL of an internal platform used by Traffic Wales.

The software is used by the Welsh Government’s traffic information service to monitor the many cameras along the A55 and other major routes in Wales.

While the injuries sustained in the incident were thankfully minor, a number of people expressed their concern about the footage making its way into the public domain. A spokesperson said: “Traffic Wales are urgently investigating how the footage was released and we would urge people not to share the images on social media.”