Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF11 on 17 July 2003 at 15:38 involving a car
A car and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 15:38 on Thursday 17 July 2003. A 70-year-old male passenger in the bus or coach and a 40-year-old male passenger in the bus or coach were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2003
- Thursday, 15:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48013, longitude -3.19592, in the CF11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Riverside, Cardiff, CF11 6FX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003620087737
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 January 2002.
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 10 January 2002
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Slight
Transbus Int crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 5 March 2005
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Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 19 December 2025
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 11 June 2012
14 m awayRef 2012621200348
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 17 November 2011
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 23 August 2008
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2003620087737 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2003.