Serious unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 25 December 2012 at 23:59 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 23:59 on Tuesday 25 December 2012. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69796, longitude -3.03005, in the NP4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontypool Fawr, Torfaen, NP4 0RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012610074512
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 472
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 1992.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 10 February 1992
10 m awayRef 199261B04992P
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on a C road in Torfaen, 30 March 2000
10 m awayRef 2000610033900
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 23 August 1994
14 m awayRef 1994610084994
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Torfaen, 27 November 2003
14 m awayRef 2003610129803
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A472 in Torfaen, 21 January 1992
20 m awayRef 199261B02392P
Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Torfaen, 26 November 2008
22 m awayRef 2008610092508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2012610074512 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2012.