A467 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 15 October 1996 at 19:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent at 19:00 on Tuesday 15 October 1996. The 36-year-old female driver and a 15-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 1996
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69796, longitude -3.13274, in the NP13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996610117396
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 467
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 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 8 January 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 8 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199261C00492P
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 2 July 1994
10 m awayRef 1994610065794
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 16 October 1993
32 m awayRef 1993610106393
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 23 June 2023
41 m awayRef 2023610024923
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 13 May 2019
50 m awayRef 2019610017419
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 16 October 2003
76 m awayRef 2003610112903
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1996610117396 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 1996.