Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF24 on 21 August 2010 at 13:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 13:00 on Saturday 21 August 2010. A 15-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 21 Aug 2010
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49015, longitude -3.15672, in the CF24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plasnewydd, Cardiff, CF24 3HP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010620203662
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 16 September 1980
10 m awayRef 1980620C03810
Slight
Car crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 4 June 1988
14 m awayRef 1988620C09390
Slight
Van crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 15 October 1983
14 m awayRef 1983620C15890
Slight
Lexmoto LXR crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 15 July 2025
19 m awayRef 2025622500495
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 7 July 2017
20 m awayRef 2017621701055
Slight
Bus crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 28 July 1988
20 m awayRef 1988620C12480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 2010620203662 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.