B4251 crash in Caerphilly on 12 August 2021 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4251 in Caerphilly at 16:00 on Thursday 12 August 2021. A 13-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 12 Aug 2021
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68086, longitude -3.16497, in the NP12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oakdale.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021610032121
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4251
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 23 July 2014
25 m awayRef 2014610044214
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the B4251 in Caerphilly, 8 March 2000
27 m awayRef 2000610023400
Fatal
Fiat Regata crash on the B4251 in Caerphilly, 2 September 1993
27 m awayRef 1993610088293
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 15 August 2025
28 m awayRef 2025610036125
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4251 in Caerphilly, 27 March 2006
28 m awayRef 2006610019006
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 7 December 1995
40 m awayRef 1995610132995
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2021610032121 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 2021.