B4596 crash in Newport on 2 July 2025 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and a Peugeot 108 were involved in a crash on the B4596 in Newport at 15:00 on Wednesday 2 July 2025. The 55-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 108 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Peugeot 108
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6022, longitude -2.98023, in the NP19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newport. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Julians, Newport, NP19 7LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025610053825
- Council area
- Newport
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4596
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4042
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A4042 in Newport, 23 November 2007
4 m awayRef 2007610094907
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B4596 in Newport, 23 March 2012
7 m awayRef 2012610029412
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the B4596 in Newport, 21 September 2013
7 m awayRef 2013610052613
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4042 in Newport, 20 March 2009
7 m awayRef 2009610020109
Slight
Toyota crash on the B4596 in Newport, 12 September 2012
7 m awayRef 2012610057012
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4042 in Newport, 8 March 2005
12 m awayRef 2005610013505
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 108
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 108)
- 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 2025610053825 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newport road accident statistics for 2025.