Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF32 on 21 September 2007 at 23:34 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 23:34 on Friday 21 September 2007. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2007
- Friday, 23:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53198, longitude -3.66398, in the CF32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620170992
- 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
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2006.
Slight
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Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 23 January 2003
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Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 10 June 2006
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Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 1 March 1997
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Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 26 February 1994
92 m awayRef 199462F010694
Serious
Lorry crash on the B4281 in Bridgend, 23 October 1987
114 m awayRef 1987620F14480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- 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 2007620170992 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.