Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 3 May 2017 at 18:30 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and a Daewoo Kalos were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 18:30 on Wednesday 3 May 2017. The 54-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i10 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
- 3 May 2017
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and Daewoo Kalos
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67687, longitude -3.02093, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017610061517
- Council area
- Torfaen
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1994.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Torfaen, 17 January 1994
5 m awayRef 1994610006494
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 12 January 1996
5 m awayRef 1996610003196
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 15 August 2012
5 m awayRef 2012610044612
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Torfaen, 20 May 2000
11 m awayRef 2000610075700
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Torfaen, 11 September 2003
15 m awayRef 2003610099303
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 19 May 2017
16 m awayRef 2017610048117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Kalos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017610061517 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2017.