Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF14 on 26 March 2015 at 18:56 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 18:56 on Thursday 26 March 2015. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2015
- Thursday, 18:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49941, longitude -3.20562, in the CF14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621500534
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2015.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 12 February 2015
3 m awayRef 2015621500274
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 29 November 2014
10 m awayRef 2014621402197
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Cardiff, 18 April 1988
21 m awayRef 1988620D08300
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 28 February 2019
21 m awayRef 2019621900293
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 29 December 2015
37 m awayRef 2015621600029
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 26 October 2013
41 m awayRef 2013621301947
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2015621500534 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 2015.