Serious unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP18 on 2 March 2010 at 17:30 involving a Mini One
A Mini One hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 17:30 on Tuesday 2 March 2010. A 9-year-old male 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
- 2 Mar 2010
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini One
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63285, longitude -2.97901, in the NP18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010610024810
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4236
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1995.
Slight
Car crash on the B4236 in Torfaen, 29 September 1995
At the same spotRef 1995610103595
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B4236 in Torfaen, 5 May 1997
14 m awayRef 1997610053197
Slight
Car crash on the B4236 in Torfaen, 9 December 1985
50 m awayRef 198561B552850
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 29 June 1979
50 m awayRef 197961B310790
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4236 in Torfaen, 27 July 1981
50 m awayRef 198161B341810
Serious
Car crash on the B4236 in Torfaen, 7 December 1981
50 m awayRef 198161B588810
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini One
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini One)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 2010610024810 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 2010.