Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 12 July 2015 at 16:50 involving a car
A car and two bicycles were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 16:50 on Sunday 12 July 2015. The 5-year-old male cyclist and the 6-year-old male cyclist were 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
- 12 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77096, longitude -3.0969, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blaenavon.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015610039315
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 March 2021.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 9 March 2021
54 m awayRef 2021610028721
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 16 June 2011
61 m awayRef 2011610045511
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 6 December 1988
101 m awayRef 198861B473880
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 9 August 1984
101 m awayRef 198461B301840
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 2 May 1988
109 m awayRef 198861B158880
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 15 August 1996
113 m awayRef 1996610095896
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 5, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 6, on vehicle 3 (Bicycle)
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 2015610039315 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2015.