A48 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 22 December 2005 at 23:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 23:45 on Thursday 22 December 2005. A 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48572, longitude -3.54145, in the CF35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005620144326
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- 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, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2022.
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 1 September 2022
81 m awayRef 2022622200678
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 11 January 1993
172 m awayRef 199362F000993
Serious
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 22 December 2019
241 m awayRef 2019622000030
Serious
Car crash on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 30 March 2008
255 m awayRef 2008620178571
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A48 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 6 May 2004
278 m awayRef 2004620108144
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A48 in Bridgend, 15 January 2007
305 m awayRef 2007620162683
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2005620144326 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2005.