Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF36 on 19 August 1989 at 12:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 12:30 on Saturday 19 August 1989. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 1989
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48219, longitude -3.69668, in the CF36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Porthcawl.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989620F11660
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 20 December 1987
36 m awayRef 1987620F18040
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bridgend, 29 October 1985
42 m awayRef 1985620F12430
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 2 July 1990
50 m awayRef 1990620F02310
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bridgend, 20 December 1983
51 m awayRef 1983620F13550
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 30 August 1999
61 m awayRef 199962F029699
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 28 May 1989
61 m awayRef 1989620F07070
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1989620F11660 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 1989.