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Serious unclassified road crash in the Vale of Glamorgan CF71 on 4 March 1980 at 00:55 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan at 00:55 on Tuesday 4 March 1980. The 46-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Mar 1980
Tuesday, 00:55
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46198, longitude -3.43926, in the CF71 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980620E00610
Council area
Vale of Glamorgan
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
48

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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    46 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 46, 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 1980620E00610 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 1980.