Serious B4591 crash in Caerphilly on 1 January 2000 at 03:10 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova hit a pedestrian on the B4591 in Caerphilly at 03:10 on Saturday 1 January 2000. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 2000
- Saturday, 03:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61818, longitude -3.12112, in the NP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Risca.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000610002000
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 7 March 2006
At the same spotRef 2006610017206
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 7 May 2002
At the same spotRef 2002610045702
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 24 October 2019
20 m awayRef 2019610054519
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 22 September 2025
21 m awayRef 2025610041125
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 11 September 2013
32 m awayRef 2013610050313
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 21 April 2000
32 m awayRef 2000610047400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- 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 2000610002000 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 2000.