Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF5 on 29 January 2008 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 19:00 on Tuesday 29 January 2008. A 14-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 29 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48177, longitude -3.20317, in the CF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Riverside, Cardiff, CF11 6FX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620176562
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4161
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 1979.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 12 June 1979
10 m awayRef 1979620D02620
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 11 September 1979
10 m awayRef 1979620D04180
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 19 July 1979
20 m awayRef 1979620D03250
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 3 November 2010
20 m awayRef 2010620204609
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 8 December 2002
30 m awayRef 2002620073379
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 23 October 1979
30 m awayRef 1979620D05030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2008620176562 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.