A4109 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 15 August 2012 at 18:18 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A4109 in Neath Port Talbot at 18:18 on Wednesday 15 August 2012. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 18:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74643, longitude -3.73964, in the SA10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012621200825
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4109
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 October 2003.
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on the A4109 in Neath Port Talbot, 27 October 2003
22 m awayRef 2003620095088
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A4109 in Neath Port Talbot, 14 September 1991
40 m awayRef 1991620G02920
Slight
Car crash on the A4109 in Neath Port Talbot, 1 September 1989
40 m awayRef 1989620G11810
Fatal
Car crash on the A4109 in Neath Port Talbot, 3 April 1985
108 m awayRef 1985620G03520
Slight
Car crash on the A4109 in Neath Port Talbot, 31 July 1998
108 m awayRef 199862G026498
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4109 in Neath Port Talbot, 5 July 1998
117 m awayRef 199862G024098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2012621200825 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2012.