Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF32 on 17 May 2017 at 18:51 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 18:51 on Wednesday 17 May 2017. A 7-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 17 May 2017
- Wednesday, 18:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61069, longitude -3.54374, in the CF32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ogmore Vale.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621700784
- Council area
- Bridgend
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 November 2006.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 1 November 2006
23 m awayRef 2006620161266
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 19 February 1994
28 m awayRef 199462F005694
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 25 October 2004
56 m awayRef 2004620119803
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 21 April 2012
98 m awayRef 2012621200153
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 13 February 1998
126 m awayRef 199862F006198
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 21 May 2004
146 m awayRef 2004620109445
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2017621700784 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.