Unclassified road crash in the Vale of Glamorgan CF64 on 16 December 2017 at 23:58 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan at 23:58 on Saturday 16 December 2017. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 23:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43251, longitude -3.22479, in the CF64 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dinas Powis.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621701667
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1990.
Slight
Nissan Silvia crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 17 June 1990
39 m awayRef 1990620E01920
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 12 February 1996
45 m awayRef 199662E002596
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 30 September 2025
54 m awayRef 2025622500748
Serious
Volvo 345 crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 8 May 1995
112 m awayRef 199562E011295
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 28 January 2004
125 m awayRef 2004620101788
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 21 January 1993
155 m awayRef 199362E001493
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 2017621701667 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2017.