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A4061 crash in Bridgend on 12 July 1980 at 21:25 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A4061 in Bridgend at 21:25 on Saturday 12 July 1980. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
12 Jul 1980
Saturday, 21:25
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50589, longitude -3.57681, in the CF31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgend.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980620F02270
Council area
Bridgend
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4061
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
4061

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1980620F02270 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 1980.