A4042 crash in Newport on 16 September 2014 at 04:25 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Citroen C1 were involved in a crash on the A4042 in Newport at 04:25 on Tuesday 16 September 2014. The 34-year-old male driver of the Citroen C1 and a 1-year-old female passenger in the Citroen C1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2014
- Tuesday, 04:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60447, longitude -2.99378, in the NP20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shaftesbury, Newport, NP20 5LW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014610053614
- Council area
- Newport
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4042
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2016.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A4042 in Newport, 16 November 2016
7 m awayRef 2016610051916
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A4042 in Newport, 3 November 2014
7 m awayRef 2014610063914
Slight
Daihatsu Cuore crash on the A4042 in Newport, 15 April 2004
9 m awayRef 2004610037104
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A4042 in Newport, 25 May 2007
9 m awayRef 2007610040007
Slight
Car crash on the A4042 in Newport, 4 March 1998
9 m awayRef 1998610019698
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A4042 in Newport, 31 August 1999
9 m awayRef 1999610113799
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,902 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C1)
- 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 2014610053614 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newport road accident statistics for 2014.