A465 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 6 October 2010 at 16:05 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot at 16:05 on Wednesday 6 October 2010. The 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2010
- Wednesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75685, longitude -3.57428, in the SA11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010620204036
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 9 December 2008.
Fatal
Peugeot 206 crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 9 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008620184976
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 9 April 2004
At the same spotRef 2004620106758
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 8 November 2000
At the same spotRef 2000620024733
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot, 18 January 2010
At the same spotRef 2010620200513
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 16 May 2004
At the same spotRef 2004620109725
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A465 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 12 June 2005
At the same spotRef 2005620134166
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, 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 2010620204036 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2010.