A472 crash in Caerphilly on 19 July 2017 at 16:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A472 in Caerphilly at 16:30 on Wednesday 19 July 2017. A 13-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and a 5-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64698, longitude -3.20766, in the NP12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017610026217
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 8 December 2015
1 m awayRef 2015610065015
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 20 December 2006
51 m awayRef 2006610102606
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 31 May 2007
51 m awayRef 2007610067207
Slight
Lorry crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 14 October 1983
51 m awayRef 1983620A14760
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 21 November 2003
51 m awayRef 2003610128903
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A472 in Caerphilly, 1 April 2009
51 m awayRef 2009610097309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2017610026217 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 2017.