C road crash in Blaenau Gwent NP13 on 5 September 1998 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A bicycle and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent at 17:20 on Saturday 5 September 1998. The 5-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 1998
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73686, longitude -3.13574, in the NP13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abertillery.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998610116398
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 19 March 1994
30 m awayRef 1994610029094
Serious
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62 m awayRef 2014610076314
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 2 June 2008
63 m awayRef 2008610038008
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 30 March 2017
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 7 November 1998
89 m awayRef 1998610149298
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Blaenau Gwent, 7 July 1992
98 m awayRef 199261C175920
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 5, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1998610116398 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 1998.