A4059 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 11 April 1993 at 21:30 involving a Zastava Yugo
A Zastava Yugo crashed on the A4059 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 21:30 on Sunday 11 April 1993. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 1993
- Sunday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Zastava Yugo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65132, longitude -3.31949, in the CF45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abercynon.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199362A011193
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4059
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 July 2002.
Serious
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 July 2002
10 m awayRef 2002620067204
Slight
Car crash on the A4059 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 April 1989
14 m awayRef 1989620B09000
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4059 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 15 January 2005
22 m awayRef 2005620125314
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A4059 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 26 June 2025
35 m awayRef 2025622500461
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 30 August 1995
36 m awayRef 199562A023295
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4059 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 15 May 2017
48 m awayRef 2017621700766
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Zastava Yugo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,116 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Zastava Yugo)
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 199362A011193 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 1993.