Serious unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 10 June 2019 at 11:05 involving a Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 11:05 on Monday 10 June 2019. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jun 2019
- Monday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Beetle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72622, longitude -3.06141, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abersychan. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abersychan, Torfaen, NP4 7AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019610041219
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 16 November 2017
8 m awayRef 2017610048717
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 19 October 1997
57 m awayRef 1997610127897
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 20 May 1989
87 m awayRef 198961B205890
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 16 January 2007
98 m awayRef 2007610001407
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 25 May 2007
104 m awayRef 2007610039207
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 30 June 1994
122 m awayRef 1994610064994
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2019610041219 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2019.