B4257 crash in Caerphilly on 18 December 1981 at 14:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4257 in Caerphilly at 14:40 on Friday 18 December 1981. A 74-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1981
- Friday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7663, longitude -3.28966, in the NP22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhymney.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981620A05850
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4257
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 1991.
Serious
Proton Torch crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 16 July 1991
At the same spotRef 1991620A02650
Slight
Car crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 17 November 1989
At the same spotRef 1989620A18810
Slight
Car crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 9 February 1989
At the same spotRef 1989620A02300
Slight
Car crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 28 August 1980
At the same spotRef 1980620A03610
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 9 May 2004
50 m awayRef 2004610102304
Serious
Renault 19 crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 23 March 2001
57 m awayRef 2001610026601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1981620A05850 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 1981.