A4048 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 24 July 2024 at 18:54 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series crashed on the A4048 in Blaenau Gwent at 18:54 on Wednesday 24 July 2024. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2024
- Wednesday, 18:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 4 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74236, longitude -3.22233, in the NP22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024610029624
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4048
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A4048 in Blaenau Gwent, 3 August 2008
11 m awayRef 2008610056608
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A4048 in Blaenau Gwent, 27 July 1999
16 m awayRef 1999610090599
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A4048 in Blaenau Gwent, 15 October 2022
33 m awayRef 2022610042122
Serious
Car crash on the A4048 in Blaenau Gwent, 17 May 1988
109 m awayRef 198861C14988P
Slight
Lorry crash on the A4048 in Blaenau Gwent, 22 March 1983
109 m awayRef 198361C08983P
Serious
Car crash on the A4048 in Blaenau Gwent, 25 June 1987
109 m awayRef 198761C17187P
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 4 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2024610029624 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 2024.