A4061 crash in Bridgend on 21 November 2007 at 22:33 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4061 in Bridgend at 22:33 on Wednesday 21 November 2007. The 46-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2007
- Wednesday, 22:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53262, longitude -3.57158, in the CF32 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Bride's Minor and Ynysawdre, Bridgend, CF32 9SU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620173783
- 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
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 4
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 1 February 2013
At the same spotRef 2013621300328
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the M4 in Bridgend, 21 November 2005
At the same spotRef 2005620144193
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 29 January 2000
10 m awayRef 2000620009907
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M4 in Bridgend, 18 January 2008
10 m awayRef 2008620175027
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 1 December 2012
10 m awayRef 2012621201553
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the M4 in Bridgend, 1 June 2007
10 m awayRef 2007620167585
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 2007620173783 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.