Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 14 August 2013 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 17:20 on Wednesday 14 August 2013. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2013
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72682, longitude -3.07037, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abersychan. 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
- 2013610046013
- 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
- 20 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 6 July 1979
76 m awayRef 197961B291790
Slight
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 6 November 1985
76 m awayRef 198561B498850
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 23 August 1988
76 m awayRef 198861B308880
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 17 September 1981
76 m awayRef 198161B437810
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 31 July 1989
76 m awayRef 198961B333890
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 15 October 1982
76 m awayRef 198261B493820
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2013610046013 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.