Serious B4524 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 9 October 2013 at 16:09 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4524 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 16:09 on Wednesday 9 October 2013. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 16:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46236, longitude -3.63294, in the CF32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013621301902
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4524
- 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
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4524 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 2 October 2009
72 m awayRef 2009620194445
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 21 September 1996
73 m awayRef 199662F034296
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 29 July 1999
100 m awayRef 199962E018899
Slight
Car crash on the B4265 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 15 July 1987
126 m awayRef 1987620F09050
Serious
Car crash on the B4524 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 11 December 1981
200 m awayRef 1981620F04130
Serious
Car crash on the B4524 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 22 December 1988
210 m awayRef 1988620F18920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2013621301902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2013.