Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF31 on 11 May 2012 at 03:37 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 03:37 on Friday 11 May 2012. A 22-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2012
- Friday, 03:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50129, longitude -3.57468, in the CF31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgend. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgend Central, Bridgend, CF31 1DW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012621200131
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 473
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2007.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 17 May 2007
At the same spotRef 2007620166689
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 6 December 2010
At the same spotRef 2010620205640
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 19 September 2006
10 m awayRef 2006620157152
Serious
Car crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 22 May 1980
10 m awayRef 1980620F01660
Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 18 March 1989
10 m awayRef 1989620F03710
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 26 October 1994
14 m awayRef 199462F036494
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2012621200131 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 2012.