A48 crash in Cardiff on 26 September 2015 at 05:41 involving a car
A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A48 in Cardiff at 05:41 on Saturday 26 September 2015. The 21-year-old male driver of the car and the 63-year-old male driver of the taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2015
- Saturday, 05:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and taxi
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48165, longitude -3.23619, in the CF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ely, Cardiff, CF5 4BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621501633
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 31 December 2014
1 m awayRef 2014621500012
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 21 December 2024
2 m awayRef 2024622400881
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 4 September 2023
5 m awayRef 2023622300746
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 26 March 2014
10 m awayRef 2014621400571
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 5 March 2015
14 m awayRef 2015621500401
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 2 March 2009
16 m awayRef 2009620187570
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
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 2015621501633 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.