Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 23 August 2015 at 13:49 involving a car
A car and a goods vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 13:49 on Sunday 23 August 2015. The 61-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 13:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72339, longitude -3.0589, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abersychan. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abersychan, Torfaen, NP4 7AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015610042015
- 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
- Urban
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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 January 2022.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A4043 in Torfaen, 25 January 2022
8 m awayRef 2022610003122
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4043 in Torfaen, 11 March 2012
9 m awayRef 2012610013112
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4043 in Torfaen, 9 April 2001
10 m awayRef 2001610063101
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A4043 in Torfaen, 11 January 2003
13 m awayRef 2003610002503
Slight
Car crash on the A4043 in Torfaen, 21 March 2017
18 m awayRef 2017610012817
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4043 in Torfaen, 19 September 1994
22 m awayRef 1994610097094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, 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 2015610042015 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.