A4067 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 7 November 1979 at 09:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4067 in Neath Port Talbot at 09:10 on Wednesday 7 November 1979. A 23-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1979
- Wednesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72027, longitude -3.85354, in the SA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontardawe.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620H04170
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4067
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 474
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2006.
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot, 10 July 2006
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot, 22 October 1981
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Serious
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot, 9 May 2013
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Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot, 8 June 2024
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the A474 in Swansea, 9 May 2015
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Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot, 27 August 2022
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1979620H04170 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 1979.