Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF14 on 23 December 2007 at 21:55 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series, a car and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 21:55 on Sunday 23 December 2007. The 36-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2007
- Sunday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 5 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50081, longitude -3.2139, in the CF14 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620175406
- Council area
- Cardiff
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 13 October 1979
20 m awayRef 1979620D04880
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 30 May 2023
35 m awayRef 2023622300458
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 23 September 1987
41 m awayRef 1987620D16780
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 22 June 2002
41 m awayRef 2002620062149
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 29 August 1985
41 m awayRef 1985620D14010
Slight
Volvo 480 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 13 June 1995
41 m awayRef 199562L030695
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 18 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
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 2007620175406 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.