A4161 crash in Cardiff on 25 August 1979 at 13:15 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 1979
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48102, longitude -3.19274, in the CF11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620D03780
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4161
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2007.
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 30 May 2007
At the same spotRef 2007620167491
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 15 March 2019
5 m awayRef 2019621900636
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 5 September 2008
10 m awayRef 2008620182999
Slight
Car crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 7 February 1979
14 m awayRef 1979620D00440
Serious
Car crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 9 March 1979
14 m awayRef 1979620D00760
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 14 December 2022
20 m awayRef 2022622200972
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 25, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1979620D03780 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.