A4046 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 26 October 1992 at 20:30 involving a Rover Vitesse
A Rover Vitesse crashed on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent at 20:30 on Monday 26 October 1992. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 1992
- Monday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Vitesse
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7589, longitude -3.19802, in the NP23 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199261C31292P
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4046
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1998.
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 20 September 1998
10 m awayRef 1998610137398
Slight
Car crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 18 January 2019
25 m awayRef 2019610002319
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 25 May 1992
61 m awayRef 199261C14092P
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 19 July 1992
63 m awayRef 199261C19392P
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 6 October 2023
99 m awayRef 2023610037323
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 8 December 2002
102 m awayRef 2002610133402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Vitesse
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Vitesse)
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 199261C31292P in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 1992.