Unclassified road crash in Blaenau Gwent NP23 on 29 August 2017 at 15:00 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent at 15:00 on Tuesday 29 August 2017. The 19-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2017
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford C-Max and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73625, longitude -3.17943, in the NP23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwm.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaenau Gwent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017610032017
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 11 June 2002
9 m awayRef 2002610055802
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 7 July 1997
9 m awayRef 1997610079997
Slight
Car crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 3 August 1998
11 m awayRef 1998610104398
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 19 December 2025
12 m awayRef 2025610058525
Slight
Car crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 2 November 1996
20 m awayRef 1996610130796
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 29 April 1998
34 m awayRef 1998610050798
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017610032017 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 2017.