A465 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 17 November 1994 at 17:37 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil at 17:37 on Thursday 17 November 1994. The 33-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 1994
- Thursday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76807, longitude -3.33202, in the CF48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199462A034094
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2006.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 2 March 2006
10 m awayRef 2006620148551
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 22 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199762A017597
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 31 December 1996
36 m awayRef 199662A027796
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 18 October 1987
40 m awayRef 1987620A14320
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 November 1995
45 m awayRef 199562A032695
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 10 June 2015
50 m awayRef 2015621500982
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, 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 199462A034094 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merthyr Tydfil road accident statistics for 1994.