C road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 4 April 2002 at 11:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Torfaen at 11:00 on Thursday 4 April 2002. The 47-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2002
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69769, longitude -3.03004, in the NP4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontypool Fawr, Torfaen, NP4 0RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002610042902
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 15 January 2010.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 15 January 2010
At the same spotRef 2010610014010
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 7 November 2019
7 m awayRef 2019610055819
Serious
Car crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 12 September 1987
14 m awayRef 198761B35187P
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 16 August 1979
14 m awayRef 197961B37179P
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 1 June 1985
14 m awayRef 198561B22185P
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 19 July 1980
14 m awayRef 198061B33780P
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2002610042902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2002.