C road crash in Caerphilly NP12 on 15 September 2008 at 21:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Caerphilly at 21:35 on Monday 15 September 2008. A 43-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2008
- Monday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67664, longitude -3.21064, in the NP12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackwood.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008610089608
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2004.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 19 October 2004
36 m awayRef 2004610116904
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 9 March 1999
36 m awayRef 1999610029399
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 11 August 1989
41 m awayRef 198961C252890
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 29 January 1986
41 m awayRef 198661C030860
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 20 June 1998
42 m awayRef 1998610080098
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 25 January 2002
54 m awayRef 2002610006202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2008610089608 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2008.