Serious B4471 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 17 May 2015 at 04:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent at 04:00 on Sunday 17 May 2015. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 2015
- Sunday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69425, longitude -3.12708, in the NP13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaenau Gwent
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015610023515
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4471
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1998.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 12 October 1998
89 m awayRef 1998610134698
Slight
Car crash on the A467 in Caerphilly, 15 December 1979
95 m awayRef 197961C45979P
Serious
Car crash on the B4471 in Caerphilly, 5 September 1989
102 m awayRef 198961C294890
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 25 April 2014
120 m awayRef 2014610018614
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4471 in Blaenau Gwent, 30 May 2000
122 m awayRef 2000610079800
Slight
Car crash on the A467 in Blaenau Gwent, 1 December 2015
132 m awayRef 2015610060215
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015610023515 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 2015.