A470 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 8 April 1994 at 18:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 18:20 on Friday 8 April 1994. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 1994
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64564, longitude -3.32106, 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
- 199462A010794
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2007.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 December 2007
14 m awayRef 2007620174606
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 16 March 1993
45 m awayRef 199362A009193
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 March 2021
53 m awayRef 2021622100176
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 December 2012
58 m awayRef 2012621201632
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 22 December 2022
64 m awayRef 2022622200996
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 April 2001
89 m awayRef 2001620035081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199462A010794 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 1994.