Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP44 on 30 July 2016 at 10:19 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3, a Ford Fiesta and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 10:19 on Saturday 30 July 2016. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2016
- Saturday, 10:19
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A3 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65082, longitude -3.03912, in the NP44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmbrân. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fairwater, Torfaen, NP44 4QS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016610037616
- 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
- 60 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2015.
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 6 February 2015
18 m awayRef 2015610005815
Serious
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Torfaen, 13 January 1999
18 m awayRef 1999610005099
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Torfaen, 26 March 1993
18 m awayRef 199361B096930
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 17 February 2012
28 m awayRef 2012610010812
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 22 December 1995
31 m awayRef 1995610141795
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Torfaen, 7 November 1999
63 m awayRef 1999610153799
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016610037616 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 2016.