A48 crash in Bridgend on 10 October 2002 at 16:40 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A48 in Bridgend at 16:40 on Thursday 10 October 2002. The 35-year-old male driver of the car and the 30-year-old female driver of the other vehicle were 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
- 10 Oct 2002
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53711, longitude -3.69488, in the CF33 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002620072076
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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 15 April 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 15 April 2002
10 m awayRef 2002620058388
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 21 April 1999
42 m awayRef 199962F015399
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 21 May 1997
42 m awayRef 199762F017397
Serious
Car crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot, 21 January 1982
51 m awayRef 1982620G00120
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot, 26 February 1987
51 m awayRef 1987620G02460
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 12 July 1982
51 m awayRef 1982620G01960
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 2002620072076 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 2002.