Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 3 April 1998 at 15:30 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 15:30 on Friday 3 April 1998. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 1998
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75293, longitude -3.38909, 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
- 199862A005698
- 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
- Other 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 June 2008
32 m awayRef 2008620180395
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 24 May 2018
35 m awayRef 2018621800519
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 September 1979
41 m awayRef 1979620A03740
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 8 October 1980
41 m awayRef 1980620A04330
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 April 1986
41 m awayRef 1986620A05750
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 May 1989
41 m awayRef 1989620A07690
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199862A005698 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 1998.