A4042 crash in Newport on 22 August 2002 at 07:45 involving a Ford KA
A vehicle and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A4042 in Newport at 07:45 on Thursday 22 August 2002. The 46-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2002
- Thursday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57064, longitude -2.99802, in the NP20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newport.
Map of where the crash happened in Newport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002610086902
- Council area
- Newport
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4042
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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 unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2015.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Newport, 27 October 2015
10 m awayRef 2015610053815
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Newport, 17 October 2025
11 m awayRef 2025610042725
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4042 in Newport, 19 December 1999
22 m awayRef 1999610172099
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4042 in Newport, 31 January 1994
32 m awayRef 1994610010394
Serious
Car crash on the A4042 in Newport, 19 May 1985
42 m awayRef 198561A15085P
Serious
Lorry crash on the A4042 in Newport, 19 December 1979
42 m awayRef 197961A51479P
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 2002610086902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newport road accident statistics for 2002.