Unclassified road crash in the Vale of Glamorgan CF71 on 26 March 2008 at 08:15 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan at 08:15 on Wednesday 26 March 2008. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2008
- Wednesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45934, longitude -3.467, in the CF71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620177477
- 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
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Raining, no 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2003.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 2 March 2003
92 m awayRef 2003620079638
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 17 July 2025
114 m awayRef 2025622500484
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 26 September 2016
133 m awayRef 2016621601583
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 1 August 2023
161 m awayRef 2023622300666
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 1 March 1986
184 m awayRef 1986620E02300
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 5 February 2024
216 m awayRef 2024622400135
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2008620177477 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.