M4 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 15 April 2007 at 09:22 involving a car
A car crashed on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot at 09:22 on Sunday 15 April 2007. A 21-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2007
- Sunday, 09:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6505, longitude -3.85002, in the SA10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coedffranc Central, Neath Port Talbot, SA10 6NJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620165684
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2017.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 23 April 2017
11 m awayRef 2017621700634
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 29 March 2001
30 m awayRef 2001620037653
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 12 November 2010
32 m awayRef 2010620204975
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M4 in Neath Port Talbot, 10 February 1998
41 m awayRef 199862G005998
Serious
Car crash on the B4290 in Neath Port Talbot, 24 October 1981
41 m awayRef 1981620G03200
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4290 in Neath Port Talbot, 5 December 1990
41 m awayRef 1990620G04270
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2007620165684 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2007.