A4046 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 20 October 2001 at 00:05 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent at 00:05 on Saturday 20 October 2001. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2001
- Saturday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74265, longitude -3.18242, in the NP23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwm.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001610139701
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4046
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 21 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199261C24092P
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 4 September 2003
22 m awayRef 2003610093103
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 3 April 2003
32 m awayRef 2003610014103
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 12 June 1996
41 m awayRef 1996610062496
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 26 October 2001
50 m awayRef 2001610118201
Slight
Car crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 3 February 1996
50 m awayRef 1996610010696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2001610139701 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 2001.