Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF10 on 22 December 2011 at 10:45 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 10:45 on Thursday 22 December 2011. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47979, longitude -3.17691, 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 2GA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011620213701
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 21 May 1987
30 m awayRef 1987620C07840
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Cardiff, 30 June 1983
30 m awayRef 1983620C10230
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 20 December 1991
32 m awayRef 1991620C03440
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Cardiff, 12 June 1985
32 m awayRef 1985620C08590
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 25 January 1999
32 m awayRef 199962C003899
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 13 December 1995
32 m awayRef 199562C015795
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 6,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2011620213701 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.