B4471 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 16 November 1997 at 17:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent at 17:00 on Sunday 16 November 1997. A 16-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 1997
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70855, longitude -3.14415, in the NP13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997610142997
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4471
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 19 October 1999
10 m awayRef 1999610138399
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 18 April 1997
10 m awayRef 1997610049097
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 13 January 2005
20 m awayRef 2005610006205
Slight
Van crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 29 November 1996
30 m awayRef 1996610157396
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 29 June 1994
32 m awayRef 1994610064694
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 27 October 2013
40 m awayRef 2013610061313
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1997610142997 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 1997.