A4049 crash in Caerphilly on 5 August 2018 at 13:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4049 in Caerphilly at 13:00 on Sunday 5 August 2018. A 5-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72292, longitude -3.25047, in the NP24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Caerphilly
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018610043418
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 469
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 16 September 2010
12 m awayRef 2010610069110
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 12 September 2003
16 m awayRef 2003610095003
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 23 August 2001
24 m awayRef 2001610088201
Slight
Triumph crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 27 July 2013
34 m awayRef 2013610057613
Slight
Car crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 13 October 1985
36 m awayRef 1985620A13400
Slight
Bus crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 19 June 1986
36 m awayRef 1986620A09150
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2018610043418 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.