M4 crash in Cardiff on 2 July 2017 at 12:30 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2017
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51501, longitude -3.28836, in the CF5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621701042
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
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The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2007.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes CLK Class)
- 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 2017621701042 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.