Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 9 March 1985 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 19:00 on Saturday 9 March 1985. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 1985
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68515, longitude -3.03999, in the NP4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198561B071850
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 69 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 23 December 2014
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Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 9 April 2007
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Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 8 April 1980
224 m awayRef 198061B156800
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 8 May 2007
342 m awayRef 2007610039707
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 11 December 1984
361 m awayRef 198461A476840
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 7 September 2010
393 m awayRef 2010610057410
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 198561B071850 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 1985.