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Serious A4160 crash in Cardiff on 30 November 1980 at 23:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the A4160 in Cardiff at 23:00 on Sunday 30 November 1980. The 52-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Nov 1980
Sunday, 23:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46429, longitude -3.19331, in the CF11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980620D05860
Council area
Cardiff
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4160
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Dry
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1999.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    52 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 52, 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 1980620D05860 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 1980.