B4257 crash in Caerphilly on 11 January 1998 at 14:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly at 14:00 on Sunday 11 January 1998. The 57-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 1998
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77693, longitude -3.2959, in the NP22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998610001998
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4257
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 15 February 2002
10 m awayRef 2002610025802
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 30 April 2008
20 m awayRef 2008610027808
Slight
Car crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 11 July 2018
21 m awayRef 2018610038218
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 3 July 1987
32 m awayRef 1987620A08760
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 7 June 2019
35 m awayRef 2019610025619
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A465 in Caerphilly, 4 September 2003
42 m awayRef 2003610092903
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1998610001998 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 1998.