A467 crash in Caerphilly on 26 August 1985 at 23:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A467 in Caerphilly at 23:50 on Monday 26 August 1985. A 24-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 1985
- Monday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68509, longitude -3.14269, in the NP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198561C25985P
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 467
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 October 2016.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 1 October 2016
61 m awayRef 2016610046516
Slight
Car crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 4 October 1996
67 m awayRef 1996610114596
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 28 February 2025
69 m awayRef 2025610006125
Slight
Talbot Express crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 28 October 1992
82 m awayRef 199261C31592P
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 11 November 2001
92 m awayRef 2001610123401
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 22 August 2002
98 m awayRef 2002610099302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198561C25985P 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 1985.