A469 crash in Cardiff on 24 March 2017 at 11:47 involving a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle
A Honda GLR 125 motorcycle and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on the A469 in Cardiff at 11:47 on Friday 24 March 2017. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda GLR 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2017
- Friday, 11:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda GLR 125 and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50161, longitude -3.18893, in the CF14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gabalfa, Cardiff, CF14 3QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621700453
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 469
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 7 May 1986
5 m awayRef 1986620C07480
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Cardiff, 8 October 1981
5 m awayRef 1981620C03520
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 30 May 2016
8 m awayRef 2016621600931
Serious
Car crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 12 October 1986
13 m awayRef 1986620C15810
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 13 October 2016
17 m awayRef 2016621601720
Slight
Van crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 24 September 1988
23 m awayRef 1988620C16020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda GLR 125
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda GLR 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017621700453 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.