B4524 crash in Bridgend on 21 December 1995 at 20:30 involving a Fiat Cinquecento
A car and a Fiat Cinquecento were involved in a crash on the B4524 in Bridgend at 20:30 on Thursday 21 December 1995. The 30-year-old male driver of the Fiat Cinquecento and an 11-year-old male passenger in the Fiat Cinquecento were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1995
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Fiat Cinquecento
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5055, longitude -3.62535, in the CF32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199562F047495
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4524
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1981.
Slight
Minibus crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 2 November 1981
At the same spotRef 1981620F03560
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 19 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983620F11070
Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 1 October 1987
10 m awayRef 1987620F13370
Serious
Fiat Seicento crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 30 November 2011
14 m awayRef 2011620213287
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 3 June 2000
20 m awayRef 2000620017141
Fatal
Car crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 9 February 1989
30 m awayRef 1989620F01830
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Cinquecento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Cinquecento)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Cinquecento)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199562F047495 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 1995.