A472 crash in Caerphilly on 6 April 2015 at 18:00 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A472 in Caerphilly at 18:00 on Monday 6 April 2015. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2015
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68388, longitude -3.11862, in the NP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015610014015
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 472
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 2018.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 23 February 2018
3 m awayRef 2018610004618
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 1 May 2014
22 m awayRef 2014610084414
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 25 July 2023
24 m awayRef 2023610032523
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 28 February 2007
30 m awayRef 2007610013407
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 16 April 1992
30 m awayRef 199261C10792P
Serious
Car crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 16 June 2015
38 m awayRef 2015610050315
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2015610014015 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2015.