A4061 crash in Bridgend on 8 September 1998 at 08:15 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo, a Vauxhall Nova and a car were involved in a crash on the A4061 in Bridgend at 08:15 on Tuesday 8 September 1998. A 33-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1998
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Mondeo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55138, longitude -3.56396, in the CF32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199862F026198
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 28 December 1980
14 m awayRef 1980620F04440
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 27 February 1988
20 m awayRef 1988620F02840
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 19 January 1983
36 m awayRef 1983620F00420
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 14 July 1995
54 m awayRef 199562F028595
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 24 June 2020
59 m awayRef 2020622000566
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 12 June 1987
67 m awayRef 1987620F08750
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199862F026198 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 1998.