Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF14 on 31 December 2011 at 10:10 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 10:10 on Saturday 31 December 2011. The 49-year-old male driver of the Citroen C4 and the 40-year-old male driver of the Fiat 500 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C4 and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54682, longitude -3.20849, in the CF14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011620213927
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 December 1998.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 25 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199862L030498
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 6 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199862L005298
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 1 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000620015932
Slight
Seat Arosa crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 22 January 2000
At the same spotRef 2000620008104
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 11 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199362L031693
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 7 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199862L004798
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
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 2011620213927 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.