C road crash in Bridgend CF35 on 21 September 1979 at 07:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Bridgend at 07:45 on Friday 21 September 1979. A 29-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 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
- 21 Sep 1979
- Friday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52096, longitude -3.49719, in the CF35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pencoed.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620F03160
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 29 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199462F018494
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 22 March 1981
10 m awayRef 1981620F00720
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 8 April 1990
14 m awayRef 1990620F01270
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 23 September 1996
30 m awayRef 199662F034396
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 20 December 2004
41 m awayRef 2004620123018
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 6 May 2021
43 m awayRef 2021622100329
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1979620F03160 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 1979.