B4263 crash in Caerphilly on 4 October 2003 at 02:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B4263 in Caerphilly at 02:40 on Saturday 4 October 2003. A 26-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2003
- Saturday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59614, longitude -3.27159, in the CF83 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abertridwr and Senghenydd. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aber Valley, Caerphilly, CF83 4DF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003610109203
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4263
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the B4263 in Caerphilly, 7 February 2010
10 m awayRef 2010610020010
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B4263 in Caerphilly, 25 August 2000
14 m awayRef 2000610099500
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4263 in Caerphilly, 1 January 2004
14 m awayRef 2004610000104
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4263 in Caerphilly, 10 March 2002
14 m awayRef 2002610022802
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4263 in Caerphilly, 27 February 2008
22 m awayRef 2008610034208
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B4 in Caerphilly, 26 January 2016
25 m awayRef 2016610002316
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2003610109203 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 2003.