Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF36 on 3 June 2008 at 14:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 14:15 on Tuesday 3 June 2008. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jun 2008
- Tuesday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48327, longitude -3.68064, in the CF36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Porthcawl.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620179957
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1999.
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 23 April 1999
14 m awayRef 199962F015199
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 6 February 2001
20 m awayRef 2001620030343
Slight
Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 24 May 2000
61 m awayRef 2000620016967
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 30 July 1983
76 m awayRef 1983620F07610
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 31 March 1991
82 m awayRef 1991620F00940
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 3 July 1985
99 m awayRef 1985620F07330
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2008620179957 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.