B4264 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 20 June 1979 at 07:10 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B4264 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 07:10 on Wednesday 20 June 1979. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 1979
- Wednesday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52623, longitude -3.36791, in the CF72 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620B03230
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4264
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2007.
Slight
HGV crash on the A4119 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 November 2007
58 m awayRef 2007620173381
Serious
Nissan E24 crash on the B4264 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 22 June 1991
64 m awayRef 1991620B03430
Slight
Car crash on the B4264 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 March 1989
85 m awayRef 1989620B06880
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4264 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 21 November 1991
92 m awayRef 1991620B06050
Slight
Car crash on the B4264 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1 August 1984
100 m awayRef 1984620B14980
Serious
Car crash on the B4264 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 June 1987
100 m awayRef 1987620B12970
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 1979620B03230 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rhondda Cynon Taf road accident statistics for 1979.