Unclassified road crash in Caerphilly NP11 on 26 July 2012 at 17:02 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Caerphilly at 17:02 on Thursday 26 July 2012. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 17:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66481, longitude -3.1441, in the NP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newbridge, Caerphilly, NP11 5FG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012610044812
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 February 1999.
Serious
Volvo 245 crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 8 February 1999
At the same spotRef 1999610013999
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 25 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199261C10092P
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 23 March 1996
10 m awayRef 1996610026096
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 17 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199261C36792P
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 26 July 1998
10 m awayRef 1998610093098
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 8 April 1998
14 m awayRef 1998610040498
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 2012610044812 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.