Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF14 on 8 April 2015 at 11:37 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 11:37 on Wednesday 8 April 2015. The 61-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 8 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 11:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51002, longitude -3.2126, in the CF14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitchurch and Tongwynlais, Cardiff, CF14 1PW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621500615
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2011.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 14 April 2011
5 m awayRef 2011620208653
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 30 July 1979
9 m awayRef 1979620D03410
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A470 in Cardiff, 12 October 2003
16 m awayRef 2003620093514
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Ford Sierra crash on the A4054 in Cardiff, 27 August 2004
16 m awayRef 2004620116040
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 20 May 2004
16 m awayRef 2004620109674
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 10 November 2010
24 m awayRef 2010620204755
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 61, 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 2015621500615 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.