A470 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 26 July 1982 at 10:40 involving a lorry
Two lorries were involved in a crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil at 10:40 on Monday 26 July 1982. The 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1982
- Monday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73748, longitude -3.37283, in the CF47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982620A03220
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 19 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980620A05620
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 29 April 1994
94 m awayRef 199462A010594
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 26 March 1992
100 m awayRef 1992620A00880
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 November 1980
100 m awayRef 1980620A05010
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 June 1989
100 m awayRef 1989620A09550
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 14 December 1982
100 m awayRef 1982620A05720
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 1982620A03220 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 1982.