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Serious C road crash in Torfaen NP44 on 9 February 1996 at 00:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Torfaen at 00:30 on Friday 9 February 1996. A 32-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a snow-covered roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Feb 1996
Friday, 00:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63693, longitude -3.04264, in the NP44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmbrân.

Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996610012496
Council area
Torfaen
Police force
Gwent

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Footbridge or subway

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 57 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 March 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Nearside

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
    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 1996610012496 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 1996.