Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF33 on 3 November 2005 at 17:20 involving a Ford Transit lorry
A car and a Ford Transit lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 17:20 on Thursday 3 November 2005. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit lorry was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2005
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51019, longitude -3.66607, in the CF33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cornelly, Bridgend, CF33 4RY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005620141598
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 82 metres away, was a fatal crash on 7 May 1991.
Fatal
Nissan Micra crash on the A45 in Bridgend, 7 May 1991
82 m awayRef 1991620F01570
Slight
Lorry crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 14 December 1979
103 m awayRef 1979620F04310
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 27 April 1996
106 m awayRef 199662F013996
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 27 October 1982
112 m awayRef 1982620F03400
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 25 November 2004
120 m awayRef 2004620122410
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 5 May 1980
124 m awayRef 1980620F01450
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2005620141598 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 2005.