Serious B4252 crash in Caerphilly on 25 January 1980 at 15:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4252 in Caerphilly at 15:15 on Friday 25 January 1980. The 45-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 1980
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64562, longitude -3.22264, in the CF82 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980620A00420
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4252
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 472
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4252 in Caerphilly, 19 June 2014
43 m awayRef 2014610046514
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4252 in Caerphilly, 21 March 2014
45 m awayRef 2014610037414
Slight
Citroen DS4 crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 2 January 2022
50 m awayRef 2022610006722
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 9 March 1999
50 m awayRef 1999610065199
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4252 in Caerphilly, 14 March 2005
50 m awayRef 2005610014505
Serious
Honda crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 29 June 1995
50 m awayRef 199562N014495
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1980620A00420 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 1980.