C road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 5 October 2001 at 15:34 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on a C road in Torfaen at 15:34 on Friday 5 October 2001. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort 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
- 5 Oct 2001
- Friday, 15:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70644, longitude -3.04717, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontypool Fawr, Torfaen, NP4 6HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001610111201
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1992.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 9 December 1992
28 m awayRef 199261B487920
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 8 April 1988
45 m awayRef 198861B125880
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Torfaen, 14 December 1979
45 m awayRef 197961B608790
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torfaen, 13 June 1979
63 m awayRef 197961B23979P
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 30 June 2025
80 m awayRef 2025610027525
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 24 January 1986
89 m awayRef 198661B028860
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 2001610111201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2001.