Serious unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 18 July 2025 at 17:55 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 17:55 on Friday 18 July 2025. A 20-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jul 2025
- Friday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70201, longitude -3.04134, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontypool Fawr, Torfaen, NP4 6HW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025610032025
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2006.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 31 October 2006
23 m awayRef 2006610083106
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 21 June 2007
23 m awayRef 2007610043207
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 12 September 2003
34 m awayRef 2003610100103
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 10 July 2012
35 m awayRef 2012610031512
Slight
Bus crash on the A4043 in Torfaen, 15 April 1981
40 m awayRef 198161B15881P
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Torfaen, 20 February 1987
40 m awayRef 198761B039870
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2025610032025 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2025.