B4591 crash in Caerphilly on 26 March 2002 at 10:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B4591 in Caerphilly at 10:45 on Tuesday 26 March 2002. A 44-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2002
- Tuesday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60342, longitude -3.09389, in the NP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Risca. It is one of the crashes that make up the Risca West, Caerphilly, NP11 6BH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002610034702
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4591
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 1992.
Slight
Leyland crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 29 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199261C113920
Slight
Car crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 5 February 1999
20 m awayRef 1999610015699
Serious
Car crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 22 July 2010
22 m awayRef 2010610047110
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 27 June 2009
22 m awayRef 2009610036509
Slight
Bus crash on the B4591 in Caerphilly, 26 September 1995
22 m awayRef 1995610104695
Slight
Renault crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 14 June 1993
28 m awayRef 1993610039093
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 2002610034702 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.