A48 crash in Bridgend on 30 September 1992 at 22:05 involving a Nissan Stanza
A Nissan Stanza and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A48 in Bridgend at 22:05 on Wednesday 30 September 1992. A 12-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Stanza and the 28-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 1992
- Wednesday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Stanza and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52864, longitude -3.69307, in the CF33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pyle and North Cornelly.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992620F03440
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4281
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 slight injury crash on 6 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B4281 in Bridgend, 6 March 1979
At the same spotRef 1979620F00630
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 3 May 1992
10 m awayRef 1992620F01390
Serious
Volvo crash on the B4281 in Bridgend, 23 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199462F019694
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 25 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199762F033497
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 26 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199462F044794
Slight
Triumph Dolomite crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 29 August 1992
10 m awayRef 1992620F03110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Stanza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Stanza)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 1992620F03440 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 1992.