Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 3 August 2013 at 17:30 involving an MG MGF
An MG MGF crashed on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 17:30 on Saturday 3 August 2013. The 19-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2013
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG MGF
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72449, longitude -3.0696, in the NP4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abersychan, Torfaen, NP4 7AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013610043613
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 1 July 1999
10 m awayRef 1999610079699
Slight
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 18 August 1991
22 m awayRef 199161B529910
Serious
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 13 November 1980
22 m awayRef 198061B517800
Slight
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 2 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198461B158840
Slight
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 8 November 1984
22 m awayRef 198461B479840
Slight
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 11 August 1980
22 m awayRef 198061B362800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG MGF
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG MGF)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG MGF)
- 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 2013610043613 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.