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Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 14 October 1979 at 23:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 23:50 on Sunday 14 October 1979. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
14 Oct 1979
Sunday, 23:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7592, longitude -3.36045, 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
1979620A04280
Council area
Merthyr Tydfil
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 1979620A04280 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.