Serious A4054 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 2 May 1997 at 09:50 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova hit a pedestrian on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil at 09:50 on Friday 2 May 1997. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 May 1997
- Friday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72097, longitude -3.35438, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199762A004797
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4054
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 10 November 1999
14 m awayRef 199962A019699
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 December 1998
14 m awayRef 199862A018598
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 22 April 2004
22 m awayRef 2004620107275
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 18 December 2012
22 m awayRef 2012621201621
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 May 2003
28 m awayRef 2003620082602
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 June 2010
28 m awayRef 2010620201123
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 199762A004797 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.