B4266 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 5 November 2003 at 10:35 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Citroen ZX were involved in a crash on the B4266 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 10:35 on Wednesday 5 November 2003. The 51-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto and the 57-year-old male driver of the Citroen ZX were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2003
- Wednesday, 10:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Citroen ZX
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40589, longitude -3.29434, in the CF62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Illtyd, Vale of Glamorgan, CF62 3BA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003620094963
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4266
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 19 January 1983
14 m awayRef 1983620E00530
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 7 December 1988
14 m awayRef 1988620E14160
Serious
Car crash on the B4266 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 21 December 1981
22 m awayRef 1981620E03450
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 21 December 1981
22 m awayRef 1981620E03460
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 16 May 1993
42 m awayRef 199362E012293
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 20 June 1987
42 m awayRef 1987620E06290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen ZX)
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 2003620094963 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2003.