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Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 11 January 1979 at 07:50 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 07:50 on Thursday 11 January 1979. A 55-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
11 Jan 1979
Thursday, 07:50
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76107, longitude -3.35471, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil.

Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979620A00160
Council area
Merthyr Tydfil
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 55, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Alighting

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 1979620A00160 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merthyr Tydfil road accident statistics for 1979.