Serious C road crash in Caerphilly CF82 on 26 December 2004 at 17:13 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Caerphilly at 17:13 on Sunday 26 December 2004. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Dec 2004
- Sunday, 17:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65201, longitude -3.2441, in the CF82 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004610147504
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 1995.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 6 June 1995
40 m awayRef 199562N012095
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 16 October 1986
50 m awayRef 1986620A14830
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 6 December 1987
86 m awayRef 1987620A17190
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 23 November 1995
112 m awayRef 199562N031595
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 2 September 1992
143 m awayRef 1992620N01580
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 6 August 1987
152 m awayRef 1987620A10420
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2004610147504 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 2004.