B4487 crash in Cardiff on 16 February 2009 at 13:55 involving a BMW 7 Series
A BMW 7 Series and a Suzuki Wagon R+ were involved in a crash on the B4487 in Cardiff at 13:55 on Monday 16 February 2009. The 40-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Wagon R+ was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2009
- Monday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 7 Series and Suzuki Wagon R+
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51734, longitude -3.11547, in the CF3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rumney, Cardiff, CF3 3LR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009620187323
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2010.
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Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 14 November 2003
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Ford Transit crash on the B4487 in Cardiff, 28 March 2011
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4487 in Cardiff, 14 March 2006
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 3 July 2008
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4487 in Cardiff, 18 December 2008
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 7 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Wagon R+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
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 2009620187323 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2009.