Serious unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF10 on 27 May 2011 at 22:50 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 22:50 on Friday 27 May 2011. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 May 2011
- Friday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48061, longitude -3.18442, in the CF10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3ET area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011620209554
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2006.
Slight
Daewoo Tacuma crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 24 May 2006
At the same spotRef 2006620151989
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 17 August 2004
At the same spotRef 2004620115187
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 1 October 2006
At the same spotRef 2006620159166
Slight
Car crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 27 April 1985
20 m awayRef 1985620C06260
Slight
Car crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 15 October 1983
22 m awayRef 1983620C15760
Slight
Bus crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 6 August 1985
28 m awayRef 1985620C11870
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
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 2011620209554 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 2011.