B4251 crash in Caerphilly on 6 December 2000 at 17:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on the B4251 in Caerphilly at 17:00 on Wednesday 6 December 2000. An 8-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 6 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67304, longitude -3.18466, in the NP12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oakdale.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000610144800
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4251
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 1996.
Serious
Car crash on the B4251 in Caerphilly, 9 September 1996
10 m awayRef 1996610106196
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 31 July 2024
21 m awayRef 2024610035924
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 4 March 1986
22 m awayRef 198661C063860
Serious
Van crash on the B4251 in Caerphilly, 25 August 1979
22 m awayRef 197961C289790
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 5 June 1979
22 m awayRef 197961C168790
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 25 July 2009
32 m awayRef 2009610050709
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2000610144800 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.