Serious unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF3 on 30 December 2025 at 16:07 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 16:07 on Tuesday 30 December 2025. The 25-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 16:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Vauxhall Mokka
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53373, longitude -3.09523, in the CF3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622600019
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 48
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2009.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A48 in Newport, 8 January 2009
4 m awayRef 2009610096509
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 3 June 2017
11 m awayRef 2017621701015
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 21 August 1997
33 m awayRef 199762L022897
Slight
Car crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 18 December 1981
58 m awayRef 1981620C04820
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 25 May 2014
86 m awayRef 2014621400951
Serious
Minibus crash on the A48 in Cardiff, 4 April 1980
110 m awayRef 1980620C01450
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025622600019 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2025.