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A48 crash in Cardiff on 5 October 1979 at 20:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A48 in Cardiff at 20:40 on Friday 5 October 1979. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity
Slight
Date
5 Oct 1979
Friday, 20:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49257, longitude -3.2158, in the CF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.

Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979620D04790
Council area
Cardiff
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
48
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
4119

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry
Special conditions at the site
Road surface defective
Carriageway hazards
Poor or defective road surface

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2007.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 1979620D04790 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.