Serious A48 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 9 September 1987 at 18:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 18:10 on Wednesday 9 September 1987. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Sep 1987
- Wednesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46501, longitude -3.4562, in the CF71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987620E09370
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 2016.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A48 in Swansea, 22 July 2016
5 m awayRef 2016621601237
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 11 February 2017
6 m awayRef 2017621700251
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 25 May 2014
27 m awayRef 2014621400961
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 12 September 1997
41 m awayRef 199762E022797
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 19 August 1999
41 m awayRef 199962E020499
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 16 October 2024
50 m awayRef 2024622400751
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 1987620E09370 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 1987.