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Serious A470 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 29 November 1980 at 11:05 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil at 11:05 on Saturday 29 November 1980. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Nov 1980
Saturday, 11:05
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74637, longitude -3.38179, in the CF47 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980620A05220
Council area
Merthyr Tydfil
Police force
South Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
470
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1980620A05220 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.