C road crash in Newport NP20 on 18 January 1997 at 13:44 involving a Ford Escort
A car, a Ford Escort and a Fiat Tempra were involved in a crash on a C road in Newport at 13:44 on Saturday 18 January 1997. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort 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
- 18 Jan 1997
- Saturday, 13:44
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57944, longitude -3.02559, in the NP20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newport.
Map of where the crash happened in Newport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997610016897
- Council area
- Newport
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 1994.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Newport, 25 January 1994
At the same spotRef 1994610008994
Serious
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Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in Newport, 6 January 2010
45 m awayRef 2010610001910
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Newport, 16 July 2019
119 m awayRef 2019610030119
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Newport, 19 July 1987
133 m awayRef 198761A222870
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Newport, 30 November 1992
139 m awayRef 199261A471920
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Fiat Tempra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 1997610016897 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newport road accident statistics for 1997.