A4061 crash in Bridgend on 25 January 2004 at 13:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4061 in Bridgend at 13:30 on Sunday 25 January 2004. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 71-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2004
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56919, longitude -3.5398, in the CF35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004620101695
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4061
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 7 July 1979
At the same spotRef 1979620F02490
Serious
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 10 September 1981
10 m awayRef 1981620F02940
Slight
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 15 December 1979
10 m awayRef 1979620F04210
Slight
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 30 November 1979
10 m awayRef 1979620F04090
Serious
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 16 June 1981
10 m awayRef 1981620F01610
Serious
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 12 January 1983
20 m awayRef 1983620F00090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2004620101695 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 2004.