C road crash in Bridgend CF32 on 28 December 1981 at 00:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Bridgend at 00:30 on Monday 28 December 1981. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1981
- Monday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53819, longitude -3.56206, in the CF32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981620F04410
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 September 1991.
Serious
Hillman Avenger crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 26 September 1991
10 m awayRef 1991620F03430
Fatal
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 6 August 1990
45 m awayRef 1990620F02700
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 14 December 1995
54 m awayRef 199562F048995
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Bridgend, 11 August 1982
104 m awayRef 1982620F02450
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 27 October 2003
108 m awayRef 2003620095030
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 14 September 2020
270 m awayRef 2020622000828
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 1981620F04410 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 1981.