A4230 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 6 July 2017 at 16:55 involving a Kia Carens
A Kia Carens and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4230 in Neath Port Talbot at 16:55 on Thursday 6 July 2017. The 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra 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
- 6 Jul 2017
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Carens and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6729, longitude -3.79977, in the SA10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Neath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bryn-coch South, Neath Port Talbot, SA10 7AN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621701044
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4230
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2004.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4230 in Neath Port Talbot, 7 May 2004
17 m awayRef 2004620109078
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 14 February 2002
20 m awayRef 2002620053768
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4230 in Neath Port Talbot, 4 September 2009
40 m awayRef 2009620193452
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4230 in Neath Port Talbot, 25 May 2025
53 m awayRef 2025622500363
Slight
Yamaha XC 125 crash on the A4230 in Neath Port Talbot, 2 May 2016
61 m awayRef 2016621600775
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4230 in Neath Port Talbot, 13 December 1984
61 m awayRef 1984620G13090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Carens
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017621701044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2017.