Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 20 May 2013 at 23:43 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 23:43 on Monday 20 May 2013. The 52-year-old male driver and a 24-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2013
- Monday, 23:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69503, longitude -3.01551, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013610020313
- Council area
- Torfaen
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2000.
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in Torfaen, 29 March 2000
36 m awayRef 2000610039700
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Torfaen, 27 May 2002
42 m awayRef 2002610059002
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Torfaen, 19 December 1998
45 m awayRef 1998610166798
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Torfaen, 26 June 1997
50 m awayRef 1997610074597
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 5 August 1996
57 m awayRef 1996610087396
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 6 December 1982
81 m awayRef 198261B586820
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2013610020313 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 2013.