B4270 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 24 July 2015 at 17:12 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 17:12 on Friday 24 July 2015. The 38-year-old male driver of vehicle 4 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2015
- Friday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42965, longitude -3.49199, in the CF71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621501262
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4270
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1990.
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 18 March 1990
10 m awayRef 1990620E00900
Slight
Seat Cordoba crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 3 September 2001
22 m awayRef 2001620042519
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 31 July 2012
29 m awayRef 2012621200701
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 13 October 1998
38 m awayRef 199862E027498
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 29 May 2013
54 m awayRef 2013621300906
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 23 May 2014
76 m awayRef 2014621400944
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (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 2015621501262 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2015.