B4257 crash in Caerphilly on 2 July 1998 at 16:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4257 in Caerphilly at 16:50 on Thursday 2 July 1998. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1998
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76594, longitude -3.28892, in the NP22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhymney.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998610085198
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 December 2022.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 1 December 2022
9 m awayRef 2022610060622
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 31 August 2015
9 m awayRef 2015610044215
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 13 March 1999
10 m awayRef 1999610034099
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 3 October 1997
14 m awayRef 1997610121597
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 31 January 2014
17 m awayRef 2014610056514
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 23 February 2008
20 m awayRef 2008610066708
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1998610085198 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.