C road crash in Blaenau Gwent NP23 on 31 October 1996 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Blaenau Gwent at 15:30 on Thursday 31 October 1996. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1996
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79067, longitude -3.21292, in the NP23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ebbw Vale.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996610122196
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 1999.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 15 November 1999
14 m awayRef 1999610164299
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 6 December 2005
22 m awayRef 2005610113505
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 12 April 1994
22 m awayRef 1994610038194
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 9 March 2025
28 m awayRef 2025610012925
Serious
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 10 January 2003
36 m awayRef 2003610004003
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 20 March 1985
45 m awayRef 198561C081850
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1996610122196 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.