Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP44 on 17 October 2025 at 15:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 15:15 on Friday 17 October 2025. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2025
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64585, longitude -3.05264, in the NP44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwmbrân. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fairwater, Torfaen, NP44 4QS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025610042825
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Fine, 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in Torfaen, 26 July 2001
12 m awayRef 2001610077101
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on a C road in Torfaen, 21 January 1997
22 m awayRef 1997610001197
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Torfaen, 9 February 2006
22 m awayRef 2006610007906
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Torfaen, 25 May 1996
25 m awayRef 1996610062996
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 1 February 1998
55 m awayRef 1998610010098
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Torfaen, 6 July 1991
57 m awayRef 199161B315910
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2025610042825 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.