Serious C road crash in Torfaen NP44 on 29 November 2013 at 17:40 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on a C road in Torfaen at 17:40 on Friday 29 November 2013. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Nov 2013
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64975, longitude -3.05222, in the NP44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmbrân. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fairwater, Torfaen, NP44 4QS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013610088313
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 1990.
Slight
Reliant Kitten crash on a C road in Torfaen, 30 April 1990
20 m awayRef 199061B181900
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 24 April 1988
20 m awayRef 198861B082880
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 13 January 1988
20 m awayRef 198861B018880
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 11 January 1989
20 m awayRef 198961B014890
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Torfaen, 17 June 1991
20 m awayRef 199161B260910
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 30 March 1981
20 m awayRef 198161B131810
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2013610088313 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.