Serious unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF11 on 31 January 2017 at 21:32 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 21:32 on Tuesday 31 January 2017. The 42-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 21:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47117, longitude -3.19783, in the CF11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canton, Cardiff, CF11 8EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621700207
- Council area
- Cardiff
- 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
- Urban
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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2001.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 9 March 2001
15 m awayRef 2001620031901
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 25 March 2008
23 m awayRef 2008620178041
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 5 March 2003
28 m awayRef 2003620079068
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 5 May 1982
30 m awayRef 1982620D01800
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 11 November 2015
50 m awayRef 2015621501983
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 18 February 2016
64 m awayRef 2016621600375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2017621700207 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2017.