Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF32 on 23 December 2008 at 01:25 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 01:25 on Tuesday 23 December 2008. A 19-year-old male passenger, a 17-year-old female passenger and the 18-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55891, longitude -3.58922, in the CF32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620185430
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2000.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 4 September 2000
14 m awayRef 2000620021154
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 4 October 2002
14 m awayRef 2002620069916
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 13 June 2009
14 m awayRef 2009620190724
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 17 October 2017
17 m awayRef 2017621701436
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 6 March 1990
20 m awayRef 1990620F00840
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bridgend, 16 December 1984
22 m awayRef 1984620F14600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
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 2008620185430 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.