A4160 crash in Cardiff on 6 July 2019 at 00:26 involving a Ford Fiesta
Two Ford Fiestas were involved in a crash on the A4160 in Cardiff at 00:26 on Saturday 6 July 2019. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2019
- Saturday, 00:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46011, longitude -3.19669, in the CF11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grangetown, Cardiff, CF11 8TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019621900913
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4160
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 December 2018.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4160 in Cardiff, 17 December 2018
42 m awayRef 2018621801643
Slight
Car crash on the A4160 in Cardiff, 24 January 1979
43 m awayRef 1979620D00240
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A4160 in Cardiff, 8 January 2021
46 m awayRef 2021622100056
Slight
Car crash on the A4160 in Cardiff, 11 February 2006
52 m awayRef 2006620147138
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4160 in Cardiff, 8 February 1994
57 m awayRef 199462D006694
Slight
Car crash on the A4160 in Cardiff, 24 August 1979
65 m awayRef 1979620D03770
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2019621900913 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 2019.