Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF23 on 17 August 2018 at 15:11 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 15:11 on Friday 17 August 2018. The 80-year-old male driver 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
- 17 Aug 2018
- Friday, 15:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52298, longitude -3.17307, in the CF23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018621801007
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 19 August 1988
12 m awayRef 1988620D16430
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 3 August 1984
12 m awayRef 1984620D12720
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 5 October 1981
12 m awayRef 1981620D04590
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 4 May 2015
12 m awayRef 2015621500817
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 1 October 2015
13 m awayRef 2015621501688
Slight
BMW X3 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 8 September 2012
18 m awayRef 2012621200932
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018621801007 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 2018.