Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF5 on 13 August 2007 at 10:40 involving a Scania lorry
A Scania lorry and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 10:40 on Monday 13 August 2007. The 48-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2007
- Monday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Scania and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49252, longitude -3.21598, in the CF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2YB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620171252
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 5 October 1979
10 m awayRef 1979620D04790
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4119 in Cardiff, 6 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007620174956
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 8 January 2002
14 m awayRef 2002620051129
Serious
Car crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 16 March 1979
14 m awayRef 1979620D00930
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4119 in Cardiff, 5 November 2007
14 m awayRef 2007620173818
Slight
Kawasaki EX crash on the A4119 in Cardiff, 18 August 2025
18 m awayRef 2025622500577
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 2007620171252 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2007.