Serious A4061 crash in Bridgend on 28 March 2016 at 22:07 involving a Fiat Punto
A car and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A4061 in Bridgend at 22:07 on Monday 28 March 2016. The 21-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Mar 2016
- Monday, 22:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60139, longitude -3.54161, in the CF32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ogmore Vale.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016621600593
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 May 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 9 May 1981
10 m awayRef 1981620F01220
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 21 January 1998
12 m awayRef 199862F002798
Slight
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 23 March 1980
13 m awayRef 1980620F00990
Slight
MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 19 December 2009
16 m awayRef 2009620196790
Slight
Car crash on the A4061 in Bridgend, 15 September 2004
27 m awayRef 2004620117340
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 17 March 2006
40 m awayRef 2006620148929
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016621600593 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 2016.