M4 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 29 January 2005 at 22:52 involving a Citroen ZX
A Citroen ZX crashed on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot at 22:52 on Saturday 29 January 2005. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2005
- Saturday, 22:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen ZX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63996, longitude -3.83991, in the SA10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005620125905
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 September 1997.
Serious
Mitsubishi Colt crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 6 September 1997
36 m awayRef 199762G029097
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 12 December 2022
61 m awayRef 2022622200953
Serious
Car crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 7 November 2017
91 m awayRef 2017621701533
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 16 November 2019
97 m awayRef 2019621901631
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot, 2 January 1989
106 m awayRef 1989620G00060
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 14 January 2000
106 m awayRef 2000620007291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2005620125905 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2005.