Serious C road crash in Caerphilly NP13 on 27 November 1993 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on a C road in Caerphilly at 18:30 on Saturday 27 November 1993. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 1993
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70188, longitude -3.15512, in the NP13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993610122993
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 1996.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 28 February 1996
28 m awayRef 1996610018696
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 10 September 1991
85 m awayRef 199161C282910
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 1 April 1986
85 m awayRef 198661C095860
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 21 April 1988
85 m awayRef 198861C125880
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 11 October 1993
95 m awayRef 1993610105293
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 19 September 1994
132 m awayRef 1994610097394
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1993610122993 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 1993.