Search: Stinger body find
Police complaints investigators have been called in after a teenage girl was found dead in a car stopped by officers with a "stinger" device.
The body of Chanelle Jones, 17, was found in a Ford Fiesta brought to a halt near Aberaeron, Ceredigion in west Wales on Sunday night, after having been reported missing only hours earlier.
The car collided with a camper van parked in a lay-by on the A487 road after the stinger was used, leaving the van's two occupants with minor injuries.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the Fiesta's driver was arrested at the scene, and he was being treated in hospital.
The force said the death of Chanelle, from nearby Cardigan, was being treated as murder, but it was not clear whether she was already dead when the car crashed or she died as a result of the accident.
A police spokesman said the case had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission because of the way the car was stopped.
Chanelle's mother Jayne said her daughter had been taken from her in a "cruel set of circumstances".
In a statement released through police, she said: "My beautiful daughter Chanelle Sasha has been taken from us due to a cruel set of circumstances.
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"She has been through so much in her short life and I was, and we all are, so proud of how she was turning her life around for the better and she now had so many ambitions. She was my lovely daughter who will be so sadly missed by her sister and two brothers and all her family and her boyfriend Brian. We all love you and miss you darling babe."
Pathologists are due to carry out a post-mortem examination on Chanelle's body.
