C road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 19 December 2007 at 15:20 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Torfaen at 15:20 on Wednesday 19 December 2007. The 37-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70381, longitude -3.04031, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontypool Fawr, Torfaen, NP4 6HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007610097607
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 March 1992.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Torfaen, 26 March 1992
10 m awayRef 199261B113920
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Torfaen, 20 April 1991
22 m awayRef 199161B162910
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Torfaen, 8 August 1999
30 m awayRef 1999610103399
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Torfaen, 16 September 1998
36 m awayRef 1998610112298
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Torfaen, 25 June 2001
36 m awayRef 2001610062401
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Torfaen, 14 February 2002
36 m awayRef 2002610015002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2007610097607 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2007.