A48 crash in Newport on 1 April 1997 at 18:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A48 in Newport at 18:00 on Tuesday 1 April 1997. The 26-year-old male driver of the car and a 36-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 1997
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56578, longitude -3.03524, in the NP10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Newport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997610034897
- Council area
- Newport
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 467
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 18 June 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A48(M) in Newport, 18 June 2013
At the same spotRef 2013610028513
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A48 in Newport, 17 April 2004
At the same spotRef 2004610037304
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A48 in Newport, 14 June 2001
10 m awayRef 2001610063301
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A48 in Newport, 19 July 2004
10 m awayRef 2004610083204
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in Newport, 7 February 1998
10 m awayRef 1998610014998
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A48 in Newport, 18 February 2002
10 m awayRef 2002610025602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 1997610034897 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.