A4061 crash in Bridgend on 3 May 2008 at 21:50 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the A4061 in Bridgend at 21:50 on Saturday 3 May 2008. The 44-year-old female driver of the Toyota RAV4 and a 31-year-old female passenger in the Seat Leon were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2008
- Saturday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5823, longitude -3.54154, in the CF32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620178852
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4061
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 27 September 1986
42 m awayRef 1986620F13440
Serious
Bus crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 22 October 1986
51 m awayRef 1986620F14130
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 22 June 1989
54 m awayRef 1989620F08860
Serious
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 27 January 1989
63 m awayRef 1989620F01110
Slight
Van crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 27 December 1987
63 m awayRef 1987620F17810
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 29 April 2007
73 m awayRef 2007620165957
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota RAV4)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2008620178852 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 2008.