A472 crash in Caerphilly on 20 December 2010 at 13:45 involving a Citroen C5
A Citroen C5 and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A472 in Caerphilly at 13:45 on Monday 20 December 2010. The 36-year-old male driver of the Citroen C5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2010
- Monday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C5 and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68132, longitude -3.12889, in the NP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010610088810
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 472
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 16 May 2005.
Fatal
Skoda Felicia crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 16 May 2005
14 m awayRef 2005610035405
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 28 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025610059325
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 12 July 2007
22 m awayRef 2007610057807
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 23 December 2011
32 m awayRef 2011610074111
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 4 April 1995
51 m awayRef 1995610035795
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 29 June 1991
58 m awayRef 199161C196910
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C5)
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 2010610088810 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2010.