Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF14 on 6 August 1979 at 19:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 19:30 on Monday 6 August 1979. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 1979
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50117, longitude -3.19226, in the CF14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620C02540
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 6 January 1980
50 m awayRef 1980620C00040
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 4 April 1979
57 m awayRef 1979620C01020
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 7 October 1983
58 m awayRef 1983620C15410
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 30 March 1999
60 m awayRef 199962C011099
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 22 November 2019
62 m awayRef 2019621901526
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 17 September 2005
80 m awayRef 2005620138648
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1979620C02540 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 1979.