A472 crash in Caerphilly on 28 December 2016 at 07:31 involving a Volkswagen Fox
A Volkswagen Fox crashed on the A472 in Caerphilly at 07:31 on Wednesday 28 December 2016. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 07:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Fox
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6623, longitude -3.15004, in the NP11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016610062716
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 472
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2012.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 1 June 2012
23 m awayRef 2012610035812
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 30 December 1995
62 m awayRef 1995610142495
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 12 January 1979
130 m awayRef 197961C01779P
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 16 October 1990
130 m awayRef 199061C32290P
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 9 May 1980
130 m awayRef 198061C16080P
Slight
Lada Riva crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 28 September 1991
134 m awayRef 199161C30391P
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Fox
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Fox)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016610062716 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2016.