A4060 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 2 August 1999 at 23:34 involving a van
A van crashed on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil at 23:34 on Monday 2 August 1999. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 1999
- Monday, 23:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74696, longitude -3.3581, in the CF47 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199962A014199
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4060
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 November 2019
5 m awayRef 2019621901450
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 5 January 2001
10 m awayRef 2001620029630
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 5 March 2001
22 m awayRef 2001620032358
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 March 2004
30 m awayRef 2004620108050
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Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 27 September 2011
30 m awayRef 2011620211696
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 14 October 2016
40 m awayRef 2016621601771
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 199962A014199 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 1999.