Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF24 on 6 March 2001 at 18:30 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 18:30 on Tuesday 6 March 2001. A 22-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2001
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes ML Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49498, longitude -3.16837, in the CF24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plasnewydd, Cardiff, CF24 3HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001620031963
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1989.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 21 July 1989
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 23 February 1987
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 16 September 2002
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes ML Class)
- 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 2001620031963 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2001.