1835 Drunken Post Cart Llandovey, A40, Llandovey, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
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Ddraig Ddu
N 51° 59.985 W 003° 44.748
30U E 448800 N 5761272
A memorial and warning to coach drivers not to drink and drive. It is the earliest know warning about the dangers of drinking and driving, even if this was on a horse and cart under the influence of a odd drop, which is unfortunately how it ended.
Waymark Code: WMAZD1
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/15/2011
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This is one of the earliest messages concerning drinking and driving. The Mail Coach Pillar also known as the "Coachman's Cautionary". Its stands as a memorial to the poor coach that the driver collided with and as a warning to not drink and drive, this was such a warning nearly 200 years ago
At this spot in 1835 the Gloucester & Carmarthen mail coach was being driven by Edward Jenkins on the 19th December, who was intoxicated at the time and was driving the coach on the wrong side of the road at full speed, when he met a cart coming in the other direction.
The coaches plunged 121 feet down the precipice and was dashed to pieces near the river, killing the drunken coach driver and the other people in the other cart.
Just beside the monument is a long parking lay-by, and for those in this community there is a geocache nearby (how I found this monument)