B4255 crash in Caerphilly on 15 March 2001 at 14:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the B4255 in Caerphilly at 14:00 on Thursday 15 March 2001. A 24-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2001
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65754, longitude -3.28964, in the CF46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nelson.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001610028201
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4255
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the B4255 in Caerphilly, 23 September 1990
14 m awayRef 1990620A03680
Serious
Optare crash on the B4255 in Caerphilly, 19 January 2023
27 m awayRef 2023610009023
Slight
FSO Cars Polonez crash on the B4255 in Caerphilly, 19 August 1993
32 m awayRef 199362N019393
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the B4255 in Caerphilly, 8 August 1995
50 m awayRef 199562N016995
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B4255 in Caerphilly, 29 January 2003
54 m awayRef 2003610007103
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4255 in Caerphilly, 13 September 2000
73 m awayRef 2000610108700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2001610028201 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 2001.