Unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF72 on 16 October 1996 at 23:12 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 23:12 on Wednesday 16 October 1996. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 1996
- Wednesday, 23:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53642, longitude -3.44002, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llanharan.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199662B050296
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Highway authority
- Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 1990.
Slight
Bedford crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 January 1990
10 m awayRef 1990620B00110
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 16 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199762B013497
Slight
MG MGF crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1 May 2007
14 m awayRef 2007620169477
Slight
Van crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 July 2012
28 m awayRef 2012621200546
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 15 May 1981
36 m awayRef 1981620B03020
Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 January 1986
36 m awayRef 1986620B00430
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199662B050296 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 1996.