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Serious A4046 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 29 December 1981 at 00:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent at 00:10 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Dec 1981
Tuesday, 00:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74224, longitude -3.18324, in the NP23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwm.

Map of where the crash happened in Blaenau Gwent

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198161C44581P
Council area
Blaenau Gwent
Police force
Gwent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4046
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 unlit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 198161C44581P in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 1981.