B4237 crash in Newport on 23 August 2012 at 17:35 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on the B4237 in Newport at 17:35 on Thursday 23 August 2012. The 22-year-old male driver of the Seat Leon and a 30-year-old male passenger in the Skoda Octavia were 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
- 23 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5887, longitude -2.97878, in the NP19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beechwood, Newport, NP19 8PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012610048612
- Council area
- Newport
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4237
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2000.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A48 in Newport, 17 November 2000
At the same spotRef 2000610137100
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B4237 in Newport, 30 June 2010
At the same spotRef 2010610041710
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4237 in Newport, 19 November 2007
At the same spotRef 2007610091107
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Newport, 25 October 2018
4 m awayRef 2018610054318
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the B4237 in Newport, 28 September 2019
5 m awayRef 2019610068519
Serious
E-scooter crash on the B4237 in Newport, 22 February 2025
20 m awayRef 2025610005925
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2012610048612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newport road accident statistics for 2012.