Unclassified road crash in the Vale of Glamorgan CF63 on 16 July 1988 at 14:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan at 14:10 on Saturday 16 July 1988. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 1988
- Saturday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42215, longitude -3.25046, in the CF63 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barry.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988620E07940
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 October 1993.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 31 October 1993
54 m awayRef 199362E031693
Slight
Daewoo Tacuma crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 19 December 2005
100 m awayRef 2005620143891
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 16 September 1998
130 m awayRef 199862E023298
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 25 September 2025
133 m awayRef 2025622500652
Serious
Car crash on the A4050 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 4 February 1987
140 m awayRef 1987620E01150
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on the A4055 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 29 March 2004
146 m awayRef 2004620106194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
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 1988620E07940 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 1988.