B4281 crash in Bridgend on 22 March 1988 at 23:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4281 in Bridgend at 23:30 on Tuesday 22 March 1988. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 1988
- Tuesday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53881, longitude -3.59597, in the CF32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sarn.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988620F04170
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4281
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1993.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4065 in Bridgend, 5 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199362F019893
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4281 in Bridgend, 21 May 2007
At the same spotRef 2007620166900
Slight
Car crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 17 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982620F04300
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4281 in Bridgend, 21 July 2009
At the same spotRef 2009620192066
Slight
Car crash on the B4281 in Bridgend, 18 May 1985
10 m awayRef 1985620F05170
Slight
Dennis crash on the B4281 in Bridgend, 3 May 2003
10 m awayRef 2003620083158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1988620F04170 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 1988.