Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF5 on 2 July 2010 at 17:10 involving a Ford
A Ford and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 17:10 on Friday 2 July 2010. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus 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
- 2 Jul 2010
- Friday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47337, longitude -3.26616, in the CF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Caerau, Cardiff, CF5 5TG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010620201810
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- 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
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1979.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 19 December 1979
40 m awayRef 1979620D06670
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 29 October 1990
40 m awayRef 1990620D06050
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 28 October 1981
40 m awayRef 1981620D05180
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 29 March 1980
60 m awayRef 1980620D01440
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 18 September 1981
60 m awayRef 1981620D04390
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 25 October 1985
60 m awayRef 1985620D17430
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2010620201810 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 2010.