A4231 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 1 March 2008 at 13:30 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 13:30 on Saturday 1 March 2008. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2008
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42091, longitude -3.24414, in the CF63 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cadoc, Vale of Glamorgan, CF63 2PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620176854
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4231
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 2 February 2010
32 m awayRef 2010620197911
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 16 September 2005
36 m awayRef 2005620138661
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 24 January 2005
40 m awayRef 2005620125968
Slight
Car crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 18 July 1988
41 m awayRef 1988620E07910
Slight
Lambretta crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 4 December 2016
44 m awayRef 2016621602045
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on the A4231 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 8 November 2012
45 m awayRef 2012621201309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2008620176854 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2008.