Serious unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF33 on 6 May 2016 at 18:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 18:30 on Friday 6 May 2016. The 28-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 2016
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54708, longitude -3.68162, in the CF33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016621600799
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 126 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 2002.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 5 April 2002
126 m awayRef 2002620058794
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 5 July 2001
133 m awayRef 2001620040494
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 4 January 2009
136 m awayRef 2009620186419
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 2 May 2013
194 m awayRef 2013621300730
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A4229 in Bridgend, 26 November 2009
430 m awayRef 2009620196114
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 4 August 1992
445 m awayRef 1992620F02670
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2016621600799 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.