Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF15 on 15 November 2014 at 11:20 involving a Mercedes CLC Class
A Mercedes CLC Class and a Volvo S40 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 11:20 on Saturday 15 November 2014. The 69-year-old male driver of the Volvo S40 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLC Class and Volvo S40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52208, longitude -3.26473, in the CF15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Radyr, Cardiff, CF15 8AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014621402181
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1991.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 18 July 1991
55 m awayRef 1991620D03460
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 5 February 1988
55 m awayRef 1988620D02850
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 15 November 2014
81 m awayRef 2014621402080
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 21 November 1989
97 m awayRef 1989620D24430
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 4 November 2013
144 m awayRef 2013621301979
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on the M4 in Cardiff, 11 May 1991
154 m awayRef 1991620D02200
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLC Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo S40)
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 2014621402181 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2014.