Serious A4046 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 23 May 1993 at 00:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent at 00:15 on Sunday 23 May 1993. The 27-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 May 1993
- Sunday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72305, longitude -3.16884, in the NP13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993610031393
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 120 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 1999.
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 6 July 1999
120 m awayRef 1999610085599
Fatal
Car crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 20 February 1996
150 m awayRef 1996610016296
Slight
Car crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 26 April 1983
155 m awayRef 198361C12483P
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 15 February 1984
155 m awayRef 198461C05184P
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 21 June 1984
168 m awayRef 198461C20284P
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 12 August 1980
168 m awayRef 198061C27680P
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1993610031393 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 1993.