A4064 crash in Bridgend on 28 March 2017 at 10:31 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4064 in Bridgend at 10:31 on Tuesday 28 March 2017. The 75-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra 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
- 28 Mar 2017
- Tuesday, 10:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6137, longitude -3.58511, in the CF32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontycymer. It is one of the crashes that make up the Garw Valley, Bridgend, CF32 8AZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621700514
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4064
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 September 2015.
Serious
Car crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 10 September 2015
3 m awayRef 2015621501551
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 11 August 2011
5 m awayRef 2011620211124
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 20 June 2011
12 m awayRef 2011620210324
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 19 October 1999
38 m awayRef 199962F037499
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4064 in Bridgend, 21 January 2005
57 m awayRef 2005620126274
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 21 May 2015
64 m awayRef 2015621500870
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2017621700514 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 2017.