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Serious A4063 crash in Bridgend on 7 December 1980 at 17:40 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4063 in Bridgend at 17:40 on Sunday 7 December 1980. A 55-year-old female pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Dec 1980
Sunday, 17:40
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6226, longitude -3.66233, in the CF34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maesteg.

Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980620F04230
Council area
Bridgend
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4063
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2004.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    32 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    66 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1980620F04230 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.