Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF46 on 8 July 2000 at 14:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 14:10 on Saturday 8 July 2000. The 13-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66154, longitude -3.31014, in the CF46 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000620019089
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 February 1989
28 m awayRef 1989620A02580
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 January 1985
28 m awayRef 1985620A01040
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 August 2000
30 m awayRef 2000620021108
Serious
MG HS crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 29 August 2025
128 m awayRef 2025622500596
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 6 October 1994
136 m awayRef 199462A027094
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 29 May 1984
144 m awayRef 1984620A07420
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 13, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2000620019089 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 2000.