Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 27 March 1997 at 11:30 involving a Mitsubishi Space Wagon
A Mitsubishi Space Wagon hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 11:30 on Thursday 27 March 1997. A 44-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 1997
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Space Wagon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75977, longitude -3.36598, in the CF47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199762A003897
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 1997.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 5 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199762A002597
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 15 September 2000
14 m awayRef 2000620022239
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 26 July 1997
22 m awayRef 199762A009097
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 26 March 1979
36 m awayRef 1979620A01120
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 August 2006
41 m awayRef 2006620155568
Serious
Ford Puma crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 July 2008
51 m awayRef 2008620181446
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Space Wagon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Space Wagon)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199762A003897 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 1997.