Unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF72 on 22 November 1983 at 23:35 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 23:35 on Tuesday 22 November 1983. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 1983
- Tuesday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53525, longitude -3.44027, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llanharan.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983620B23780
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 473
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 May 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 7 May 1980
At the same spotRef 1980620B02720
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 14 November 1987
36 m awayRef 1987620B24200
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 23 September 1987
42 m awayRef 1987620B19710
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 October 1995
67 m awayRef 199562B030695
Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 8 June 2015
69 m awayRef 2015621500984
Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 January 1989
71 m awayRef 1989620B01880
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, 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 1983620B23780 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 1983.