A470 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 10 October 1990 at 22:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 22:40 on Wednesday 10 October 1990. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 1990
- Wednesday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54439, longitude -3.26347, in the CF15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Taff's Well.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990620B06490
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 470
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2009.
Slight
Peugeot crash on the A470 in Cardiff, 17 May 2009
41 m awayRef 2009620189911
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 March 2014
42 m awayRef 2014621400564
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 November 2001
45 m awayRef 2001620049653
Fatal
Ford KA crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 25 February 2009
61 m awayRef 2009620187315
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 July 2025
75 m awayRef 2025622500511
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 30 October 2013
82 m awayRef 2013621301948
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, 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 1990620B06490 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 1990.