B4600 crash in Caerphilly on 25 February 2002 at 00:20 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the B4600 in Caerphilly at 00:20 on Monday 25 February 2002. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2002
- Monday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57807, longitude -3.22101, in the CF83 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caerphilly. It is one of the crashes that make up the Morgan Jones, Caerphilly, CF83 1JD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002610019902
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4600
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A468 in Caerphilly, 26 June 1979
14 m awayRef 1979620A02350
Slight
Car crash on the A468 in Caerphilly, 4 July 1979
14 m awayRef 1979620A02550
Serious
Bus crash on the B4600 in Caerphilly, 15 June 1996
14 m awayRef 1996610066496
Slight
Car crash on the A468 in Caerphilly, 26 March 1980
14 m awayRef 1980620A01150
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B4600 in Caerphilly, 4 August 2004
20 m awayRef 2004610081904
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4600 in Caerphilly, 3 June 2002
20 m awayRef 2002610054502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 2002610019902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2002.