A4049 crash in Caerphilly on 8 February 2000 at 06:40 involving a Ford Escort
A bus or coach and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly at 06:40 on Tuesday 8 February 2000. The 52-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2000
- Tuesday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66117, longitude -3.21919, in the NP12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fleur-de-lis and Pengam.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000610013900
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1993.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly, 18 January 1993
30 m awayRef 199361C01393P
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 10 August 2012
32 m awayRef 2012610045312
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 1 March 1979
42 m awayRef 197961C062790
Slight
Car crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly, 6 January 1996
51 m awayRef 1996610001396
Slight
Audi Coupe crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly, 7 January 1994
54 m awayRef 1994610004094
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly, 12 March 2000
61 m awayRef 2000610029500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 2000610013900 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.