Serious B4257 crash in Caerphilly on 21 August 2007 at 15:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4257 in Caerphilly at 15:00 on Tuesday 21 August 2007. A 78-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 2007
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76572, longitude -3.28881, in the NP22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhymney.
Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007610084307
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4257
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2013.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 30 August 2013
At the same spotRef 2013610057713
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 31 January 2014
6 m awayRef 2014610056514
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 23 February 2008
10 m awayRef 2008610066708
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 3 October 1997
10 m awayRef 1997610121597
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 13 March 1999
14 m awayRef 1999610034099
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 31 August 2015
14 m awayRef 2015610044215
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2007610084307 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 2007.