B4286 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 1 October 2023 at 00:35 involving a Peugeot Boxer van
A Peugeot Boxer van crashed on the B4286 in Neath Port Talbot at 00:35 on Sunday 1 October 2023. A 24-year-old male passenger and a 25-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2023
- Sunday, 00:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Boxer
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61427, longitude -3.76383, in the SA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmavon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bryn and Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot, SA12 9AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023622300890
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4286
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2015.
Slight
HGV crash on the B4286 in Neath Port Talbot, 20 May 2015
5 m awayRef 2015621500864
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 9 September 2009
53 m awayRef 2009620193421
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the B4286 in Neath Port Talbot, 21 November 2017
59 m awayRef 2017621701561
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 3 June 2006
68 m awayRef 2006620154439
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 19 September 1979
75 m awayRef 1979620G03040
Serious
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Neath Port Talbot, 27 February 1997
75 m awayRef 199762G005697
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Boxer
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Boxer)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Boxer)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023622300890 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2023.