Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF35 on 2 May 2007 at 08:30 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry crashed on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 08:30 on Wednesday 2 May 2007. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2007
- Wednesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.542, longitude -3.5011, in the CF35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pencoed.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620166333
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 121 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 3 December 2007
121 m awayRef 2007620176870
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 4 September 1989
220 m awayRef 1989620F12610
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 13 February 1982
233 m awayRef 1982620F00350
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 22 July 1990
291 m awayRef 1990620F02600
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 24 August 2007
292 m awayRef 2007620170402
Serious
Ford crash on the B4280 in Bridgend, 10 September 2014
304 m awayRef 2014621401685
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,130 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
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 2007620166333 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.