Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF34 on 3 April 1990 at 16:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Cortina were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 16:00 on Tuesday 3 April 1990. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 1990
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58095, longitude -3.66961, in the CF34 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990620F01250
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 71 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 September 2005.
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1990620F01250 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 1990.