Serious unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP44 on 4 November 2009 at 08:30 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 08:30 on Wednesday 4 November 2009. An 80-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Nov 2009
- Wednesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65817, longitude -3.005, in the NP44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmbrân. It is one of the crashes that make up the Croesyceiliog, Torfaen, NP44 2YA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009610080409
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2020.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 5 December 2020
8 m awayRef 2020610048120
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 17 December 1996
22 m awayRef 1996610165996
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 2 February 2017
34 m awayRef 2017610003017
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 2 May 1981
36 m awayRef 198161B190810
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 30 December 2006
36 m awayRef 2006610111806
Slight
Scooter crash on a C road in Torfaen, 8 November 1983
73 m awayRef 198361B475830
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2009610080409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2009.