Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF33 on 26 August 2001 at 15:20 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 15:20 on Sunday 26 August 2001. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2001
- Sunday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52432, longitude -3.69642, in the CF33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pyle and North Cornelly. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cornelly, Bridgend, CF33 4EP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001620044010
- Council area
- Bridgend
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 February 1996.
Slight
Rover Mini crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 29 February 1996
22 m awayRef 199662F007096
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 4 June 1991
45 m awayRef 1991620F01920
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 3 March 2002
54 m awayRef 2002620054939
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 27 April 1989
61 m awayRef 1989620F05630
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 1 July 1991
67 m awayRef 1991620F02140
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 1 December 1992
71 m awayRef 1992620F04080
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2001620044010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 2001.