B4261 crash in Cardiff on 2 February 2008 at 14:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2008
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4853, longitude -3.16553, in the CF24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plasnewydd, Cardiff, CF24 3HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620176179
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4261
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4261 in Cardiff, 3 April 2023
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Slight
Car crash on the B4261 in Cardiff, 4 March 1985
10 m awayRef 1985620C03520
Slight
Car crash on the B4261 in Cardiff, 22 June 1980
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4261 in Cardiff, 7 June 2005
14 m awayRef 2005620132532
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B4261 in Cardiff, 14 April 2007
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Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4261 in Cardiff, 15 August 2014
19 m awayRef 2014621401525
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2008620176179 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 2008.