C road crash in Torfaen NP44 on 4 February 1998 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Torfaen at 15:30 on Wednesday 4 February 1998. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1998
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63323, longitude -3.00297, in the NP44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmbrân.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998610013498
- Council area
- Torfaen
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 19 April 1995.
Slight
Car crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 19 April 1995
10 m awayRef 1995610040295
Slight
Car crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 18 February 1987
22 m awayRef 198761B04287T
Slight
Car crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 13 November 1982
22 m awayRef 198261B55582T
Slight
Bus crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 1 June 1979
22 m awayRef 197961B26779P
Serious
Car crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 15 June 1985
22 m awayRef 198561B24085T
Slight
Car crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 20 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198461B18984T
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 1998610013498 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 1998.