Serious C road crash in Torfaen NP44 on 12 May 1991 at 23:02 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on a C road in Torfaen at 23:02 on Sunday 12 May 1991. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 May 1991
- Sunday, 23:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66176, longitude -3.0409, in the NP44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmbrân.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199161B203910
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 October 1984.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 22 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198461B437840
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 8 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198861B335880
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Torfaen, 13 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199061B024900
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 23 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198961B223890
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 1 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198461B404840
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 8 October 1979
At the same spotRef 197961B475790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199161B203910 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 1991.