B4591 crash in Caerphilly on 25 October 1998 at 11:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A car and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly at 11:00 on Sunday 25 October 1998. The 18-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 25 Oct 1998
- Sunday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60897, longitude -3.10164, in the NP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Risca.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998610142598
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4591
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 1 December 1982
14 m awayRef 198261C38182P
Slight
Morris 440 crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 27 April 1990
14 m awayRef 199061C117900
Slight
Bus crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 28 May 1982
14 m awayRef 198261C15482P
Serious
Car crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 18 March 1985
14 m awayRef 198561C07985P
Slight
Car crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 22 December 1995
41 m awayRef 1995610142295
Slight
Car crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 4 February 1995
41 m awayRef 1995610018195
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1998610142598 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.