A4064 crash in Bridgend on 25 October 2008 at 18:05 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A4064 in Bridgend at 18:05 on Saturday 25 October 2008. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Daewoo Matiz and the 21-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Matiz and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56906, longitude -3.57659, in the CF32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620184231
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4064
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 20 September 1988
10 m awayRef 1988620F13370
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 2 September 1996
22 m awayRef 199662F031996
Slight
Car crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 22 October 1989
36 m awayRef 1989620F15100
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 16 October 1996
42 m awayRef 199662F038696
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 23 October 1996
50 m awayRef 199662F038996
Serious
Taxi crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 8 August 1988
57 m awayRef 1988620F11080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
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 2008620184231 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.