A4061 crash in Bridgend on 12 April 2007 at 17:15 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the A4061 in Bridgend at 17:15 on Thursday 12 April 2007. The 20-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Swift 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
- 12 Apr 2007
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51114, longitude -3.57733, in the CF31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgend Central, Bridgend, CF31 1DW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620165525
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4061
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 22 July 1985
At the same spotRef 1985620F07960
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 20 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199662F034496
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 11 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199562F001495
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 14 August 2000
10 m awayRef 2000620020299
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 16 October 2006
10 m awayRef 2006620158879
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 26 November 2003
10 m awayRef 2003620097985
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Swift)
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 2007620165525 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 2007.