Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 17 July 1998 at 21:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 21:45 on Friday 17 July 1998. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1998
- Friday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69238, longitude -3.34586, in the CF48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199862A010498
- 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
- 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 lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 18 March 1988
10 m awayRef 1988620A04250
Serious
Minibus crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 10 October 1987
41 m awayRef 1987620A13730
Slight
Dennis crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 30 October 2007
51 m awayRef 2007620172751
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 September 1988
58 m awayRef 1988620A13090
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 January 1990
58 m awayRef 1990620A00140
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 May 1990
58 m awayRef 1990620A01640
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 199862A010498 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.