C road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 24 April 1994 at 19:15 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and an Austin Metro were involved in a crash on a C road in Torfaen at 19:15 on Sunday 24 April 1994. The 21-year-old female driver of the Austin Metro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 1994
- Sunday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70551, longitude -3.04581, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994610041794
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2016.
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Torfaen, 31 March 1999
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Metro)
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 1994610041794 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 1994.