Unclassified road crash in Caerphilly NP24 on 12 January 2018 at 18:50 involving a Nissan Navara van
A Nissan Navara van, a car and a Citroen C4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly at 18:50 on Friday 12 January 2018. A 45-year-old female passenger in the car and a 53-year-old male passenger in the Citroen C4 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2018
- Friday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Navara and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71989, longitude -3.2402, in the NP24 postcode district and within the built-up area of New Tredegar.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018610001418
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly, 30 August 1997
4 m awayRef 1997610102597
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 15 September 1991
33 m awayRef 1991620N00170
Fatal
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 1 October 2017
38 m awayRef 2017610058917
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 22 December 1992
48 m awayRef 1992620N02480
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly, 6 April 2001
73 m awayRef 2001610042801
Slight
Car crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly, 28 January 1979
83 m awayRef 1979620A00370
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Navara
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Citroen C4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018610001418 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2018.