Serious B4242 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 5 May 2013 at 11:05 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B4242 in Neath Port Talbot at 11:05 on Sunday 5 May 2013. The 44-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 2013
- Sunday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68771, longitude -3.75186, in the SA10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013621300751
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4242
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 6 March 1982
30 m awayRef 1982620G00500
Slight
Minibus crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 8 July 1986
104 m awayRef 1986620G07790
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 3 July 1996
104 m awayRef 199662G021096
Fatal
Car crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 9 February 1985
104 m awayRef 1985620G01440
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Neath Port Talbot, 26 October 1982
104 m awayRef 1982620G03270
Slight
LDV 200 Series crash on the B4242 in Neath Port Talbot, 18 October 2002
201 m awayRef 2002620069455
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2013621300751 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2013.