A48 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 8 April 2016 at 11:49 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Renault were involved in a crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot at 11:49 on Friday 8 April 2016. The 44-year-old female driver of the Renault was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2016
- Friday, 11:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Renault
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59095, longitude -3.77862, in the SA13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Port Talbot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aberavon, Neath Port Talbot, SA12 6NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016621600639
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot, 28 November 2018
11 m awayRef 2018621801522
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 24 March 2005
15 m awayRef 2005620128845
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot, 12 August 2002
15 m awayRef 2002620064844
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 3 October 2008
19 m awayRef 2008620183402
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot, 7 December 1994
19 m awayRef 199462G040794
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A48 in Neath Port Talbot, 10 March 1991
19 m awayRef 1991620G00870
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault
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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016621600639 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2016.