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Serious A4048 crash in Caerphilly on 5 March 1994 at 18:55 involving a Volvo 240

A Volvo 240 hit two pedestrians on the A4048 in Caerphilly at 18:55 on Saturday 5 March 1994. A 2-year-old male pedestrian and a 33-year-old male pedestrian were seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
5 Mar 1994
Saturday, 18:55
Vehicles
1
Volvo 240
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61628, longitude -3.14544, in the NP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Risca.

Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1994610024894
Council area
Caerphilly
Police force
Gwent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4048
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 June 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 240

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years
    Engine capacity
    2,127 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    11 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 240)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 3: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 240)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1994610024894 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 1994.