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Serious A474 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 18 April 1986 at 20:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot at 20:20 on Friday 18 April 1986. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Apr 1986
Friday, 20:20
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75493, longitude -3.87916, in the SA8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1986620H09520
Council area
Neath Port Talbot
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
474
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 70 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 January 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, 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 1986620H09520 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 1986.