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Serious unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF36 on 16 December 1989 at 16:55 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 16:55 on Saturday 16 December 1989. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Dec 1989
Saturday, 16:55
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47892, longitude -3.7052, in the CF36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Porthcawl.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1989620F18240
Council area
Bridgend
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2007.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    51 years
    Engine capacity
    2,000 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1989620F18240 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.