Serious A4102 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 4 August 1980 at 21:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil at 21:50 on Monday 4 August 1980. A 21-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Aug 1980
- Monday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75646, longitude -3.36472, in the CF47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980620A03230
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4102
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 1990.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 August 1990
At the same spotRef 1990620A03100
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 5 May 1980
At the same spotRef 1980620A01780
Serious
Car crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 January 1981
At the same spotRef 1981620A00160
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 October 1984
At the same spotRef 1984620A13940
Slight
Bus crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 July 1988
At the same spotRef 1988620A11030
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4201 in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 May 1992
At the same spotRef 1992620A01370
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1980620A03230 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 1980.