A4042 crash in Torfaen on 30 March 2004 at 10:30 involving a Skoda Fabia
A car and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A4042 in Torfaen at 10:30 on Tuesday 30 March 2004. The 44-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Fabia were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2004
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64992, longitude -3.00178, in the NP44 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Croesyceiliog, Torfaen, NP44 2YA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004610043904
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4042
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4236
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2010.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 16 July 2010
At the same spotRef 2010610043810
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 27 June 2024
9 m awayRef 2024610022724
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 26 October 2009
10 m awayRef 2009610076309
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 18 October 2013
14 m awayRef 2013610080613
Serious
Hyundai i30 crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 9 October 2019
24 m awayRef 2019610064319
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A4042 in Torfaen, 13 March 2025
34 m awayRef 2025610008625
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
- 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 2004610043904 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2004.