A465 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 1 July 1995 at 22:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil at 22:00 on Saturday 1 July 1995. The 23-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1995
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76705, longitude -3.35069, 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
- 199562A015495
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Dual 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1999.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 30 May 1999
14 m awayRef 199962A009299
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 18 January 1999
14 m awayRef 199962A001499
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 June 1996
41 m awayRef 199662A014696
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 22 December 1995
51 m awayRef 199562A034395
Serious
Van crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 November 1987
61 m awayRef 1987620A15640
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 October 1980
61 m awayRef 1980620A04520
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199562A015495 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 1995.