Unclassified road crash in Caerphilly NP11 on 8 December 2019 at 18:06 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Caerphilly at 18:06 on Sunday 8 December 2019. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2019
- Sunday, 18:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60637, longitude -3.07185, in the NP11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Risca.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019610066819
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 3 June 1999
23 m awayRef 1999610066199
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 25 August 1995
86 m awayRef 1995610091495
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 1 June 2016
86 m awayRef 2016610026016
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 26 June 1985
98 m awayRef 198561C184850
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 10 February 1997
99 m awayRef 1997610014097
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 7 May 1999
99 m awayRef 1999610055299
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019610066819 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 2019.