B4600 crash in Caerphilly on 22 December 1988 at 21:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4600 in Caerphilly at 21:50 on Thursday 22 December 1988. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1988
- Thursday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57635, longitude -3.22655, in the CF83 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caerphilly.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988620A20420
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4600
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A468 in Caerphilly, 25 July 1979
At the same spotRef 1979620A02860
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4600 in Caerphilly, 16 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983620A10230
Fatal
Ford Granada crash on the B4600 in Caerphilly, 12 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990620A04540
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 17 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990620A04740
Slight
Lorry crash on the A468 in Caerphilly, 5 March 1981
At the same spotRef 1981620A00780
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4600 in Caerphilly, 14 July 1993
28 m awayRef 199362N016893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1988620A20420 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 1988.