A465 crash in Caerphilly on 6 January 2012 at 15:40 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A465 in Caerphilly at 15:40 on Friday 6 January 2012. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 2012
- Friday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77901, longitude -3.2905, in the NP22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Twyn Carno, Caerphilly, NP22 5QG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012610022912
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining with 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 March 2020.
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A465 in Caerphilly, 8 March 2020
17 m awayRef 2020610007620
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A465 in Caerphilly, 10 August 2024
26 m awayRef 2024610031924
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Caerphilly, 18 January 1980
36 m awayRef 1980620A00390
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Caerphilly, 24 November 1988
36 m awayRef 1988620A17860
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A465 in Caerphilly, 14 July 1999
50 m awayRef 1999610095899
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A465 in Caerphilly, 18 July 2007
64 m awayRef 2007610063607
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2012610022912 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2012.