Serious unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF5 on 12 June 1979 at 16:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 16:05 on Tuesday 12 June 1979. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 1979
- Tuesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47431, longitude -3.26729, in the CF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620D02560
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1991.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 19 March 1991
20 m awayRef 1991620D01240
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 13 September 1987
20 m awayRef 1987620D16180
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 21 November 1979
20 m awayRef 1979620D05920
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 5 October 2007
42 m awayRef 2007620172180
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 26 June 2008
45 m awayRef 2008620180917
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 10 September 1979
61 m awayRef 1979620D04150
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1979620D02560 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.