A4 crash in Caerphilly on 5 November 2017 at 02:08 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the A4 in Caerphilly at 02:08 on Sunday 5 November 2017. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2017
- Sunday, 02:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70836, longitude -3.20791, in the NP12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017610042717
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 14 February 2020
4 m awayRef 2020610005920
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 11 July 1992
46 m awayRef 199261C20192P
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 19 March 2016
65 m awayRef 2016610011016
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 8 August 1996
66 m awayRef 1996610088696
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 7 March 2002
66 m awayRef 2002610022602
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A4048 in Caerphilly, 30 September 2001
67 m awayRef 2001610108601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- 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 2017610042717 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.