A469 crash in Cardiff on 18 December 2017 at 16:11 involving a Peugeot 307
A motorcycle and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A469 in Cardiff at 16:11 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 65-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 16:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51663, longitude -3.20072, in the CF14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llanishen, Cardiff, CF14 5ET area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621800663
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 469
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Raining, 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2009.
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the B4623 in Cardiff, 21 April 2009
16 m awayRef 2009620189119
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 3 December 1979
35 m awayRef 1979620D06320
Slight
Car crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 6 December 1982
35 m awayRef 1982620D05850
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 14 November 2021
40 m awayRef 2021622100890
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 13 January 2014
52 m awayRef 2014621400068
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 14 November 2001
72 m awayRef 2001620047838
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 244 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 65, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017621800663 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.