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A4161 crash in Cardiff on 8 July 1990 at 00:45 involving a Ford Granada taxi

A car and a Ford Granada taxi were involved in a crash on the A4161 in Cardiff at 00:45 on Sunday 8 July 1990. A 14-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
8 Jul 1990
Sunday, 00:45
Vehicles
2
Car and Ford Granada
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4891, longitude -3.15809, in the CF24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1990620C03010
Council area
Cardiff
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4161
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Raining, 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 17 November 2012.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

  • Vehicle 2: Ford Granada

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 1990620C03010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 1990.