Serious unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 12 September 2011 at 16:28 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 16:28 on Monday 12 September 2011. An 8-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 junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Sep 2011
- Monday, 16:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71018, longitude -3.06173, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011610052311
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 7 January 2001
20 m awayRef 2001610002101
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 17 September 2005
22 m awayRef 2005610114605
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 16 January 2005
36 m awayRef 2005610012405
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 2 September 1983
41 m awayRef 198361B361830
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 27 November 1979
41 m awayRef 197961B599790
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 17 August 2000
86 m awayRef 2000610116800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2011610052311 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 2011.