Serious A4064 crash in Bridgend on 4 April 1987 at 20:40 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A4064 in Bridgend at 20:40 on Saturday 4 April 1987. An 81-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 56-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and a 24-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Apr 1987
- Saturday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57932, longitude -3.56593, in the CF32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llangeinor.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987620F04150
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4064
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2021.
Slight
Optare crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 9 August 2021
32 m awayRef 2021622100609
Slight
Car crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 2 April 1987
40 m awayRef 1987620F04110
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 24 February 2015
73 m awayRef 2015621500325
Slight
Car crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 28 April 1989
90 m awayRef 1989620F05700
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 1 May 2014
90 m awayRef 2014621400817
Slight
Car crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 1 April 1988
92 m awayRef 1988620F04650
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1987620F04150 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.