A473 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 5 February 1989 at 00:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 00:30 on Sunday 5 February 1989. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 1989
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5483, longitude -3.34896, 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
- 1989620B02790
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 473
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1997.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 20 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199762B070197
Serious
Car crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 9 December 1989
10 m awayRef 1989620B30260
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 14 February 1994
10 m awayRef 199462B004094
Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 June 2021
26 m awayRef 2021622100528
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 February 2003
30 m awayRef 2003620079313
Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 26 February 2009
30 m awayRef 2009620187536
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 1989620B02790 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 1989.