Unclassified road crash in Caerphilly NP12 on 20 December 2013 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly at 08:30 on Friday 20 December 2013. A female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa, the 48-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series and a female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2013
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67038, longitude -3.22421, in the NP12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cefn Fforest and Pengam, Caerphilly, NP12 3SZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013610076613
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- 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
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2016.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B4252 in Caerphilly, 19 August 2016
12 m awayRef 2016610037216
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 20 June 2010
30 m awayRef 2010610042510
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 30 June 2006
30 m awayRef 2006610052806
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 28 November 1997
42 m awayRef 1997610145797
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 6 March 1999
50 m awayRef 1999610027399
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 6 May 2003
50 m awayRef 2003610047403
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2013610076613 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.