A4048 crash in Caerphilly on 20 October 2013 at 00:54 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A4048 in Caerphilly at 00:54 on Sunday 20 October 2013. A 24-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2013
- Sunday, 00:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71636, longitude -3.21257, in the NP12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013610058513
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4048
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 3 June 2022
12 m awayRef 2022610018622
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 6 January 1994
40 m awayRef 1994610000394
Fatal
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 14 September 2003
45 m awayRef 2003610095203
Slight
Bus crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 12 August 1982
50 m awayRef 198261C24382P
Slight
Car crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 22 February 1988
50 m awayRef 198861C06988P
Slight
Car crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 22 December 1982
67 m awayRef 198261C41782P
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2013610058513 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2013.