Unclassified road crash in the Vale of Glamorgan CF61 on 22 September 2001 at 00:28 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan at 00:28 on Saturday 22 September 2001. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2001
- Saturday, 00:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42346, longitude -3.48872, in the CF61 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001620043817
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2011.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Car crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 24 April 1981
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Slight
Car crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 28 June 1984
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Serious
Scooter crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 4 October 1979
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Serious
Car crash on the B4268 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 14 June 1983
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 2001620043817 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2001.