Unclassified road crash in Bridgend SA3 on 23 December 2001 at 10:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 10:50 on Sunday 23 December 2001. The 35-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 43-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2001
- Sunday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59595, longitude -4.15853, in the SA3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001620050116
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2001620050116 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.