Serious unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF34 on 6 February 1987 at 08:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 08:00 on Friday 6 February 1987. A 21-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 21-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 1987
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62028, longitude -3.6608, in the CF34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maesteg.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987620F01640
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2011.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 31 August 2011
32 m awayRef 2011620211108
Slight
Bus crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 13 January 1987
42 m awayRef 1987620F00540
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 15 November 1997
42 m awayRef 199762F042797
Slight
Car crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 21 December 1979
45 m awayRef 1979620F04400
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 5 November 1990
45 m awayRef 1990620F04150
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 15 May 2005
50 m awayRef 2005620131359
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, 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 1987620F01640 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 1987.