Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious A472 crash in Torfaen on 21 December 1992 at 09:00 involving a Rover 200 Series

A Rover 200 Series and a Peugeot 504 were involved in a crash on the A472 in Torfaen at 09:00 on Monday 21 December 1992. The 49-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 504 was seriously injured and the 36-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Dec 1992
Monday, 09:00
Vehicles
2
Rover 200 Series and Peugeot 504
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69641, longitude -3.02722, in the NP4 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199261B50792P
Council area
Torfaen
Police force
Gwent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
472
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 2014.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    36 years
    Engine capacity
    1,598 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

  • Vehicle 2: Peugeot 504

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    49 years
    Engine capacity
    2,304 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    14 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 504)

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 199261B50792P 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 1992.