A4061 crash in Bridgend on 4 November 2002 at 22:18 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A4061 in Bridgend at 22:18 on Monday 4 November 2002. The 17-year-old male driver, an 18-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2002
- Monday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55296, longitude -3.56392, in the CF32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002620072282
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 February 1992.
Serious
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 8 February 1992
10 m awayRef 1992620F00340
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 22 August 1980
63 m awayRef 1980620F02910
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 17 March 1994
73 m awayRef 199462F009394
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 11 December 2009
81 m awayRef 2009620196566
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 31 December 2017
96 m awayRef 2017621800025
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 7 January 1995
110 m awayRef 199562F001295
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2002620072282 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.