Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF35 on 14 February 2003 at 00:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 00:50 on Friday 14 February 2003. The 35-year-old male driver 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
- 14 Feb 2003
- Friday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52048, longitude -3.4965, in the CF35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pencoed. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pencoed and Penprysg, Bridgend, CF35 5LS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003620080313
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 41 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 December 2004.
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 20 December 2004
41 m awayRef 2004620123018
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 6 May 2021
48 m awayRef 2021622100329
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 23 September 1996
54 m awayRef 199662F034396
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 30 July 1998
61 m awayRef 199862F023098
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 5 January 2012
61 m awayRef 2012620213983
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 22 March 1981
64 m awayRef 1981620F00720
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2003620080313 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 2003.