Unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF42 on 21 August 2001 at 17:15 involving a Fiat Cinquecento
A Fiat Cinquecento and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 17:15 on Tuesday 21 August 2001. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2001
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Cinquecento and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67558, longitude -3.53907, in the CF42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Treherbert. It is one of the crashes that make up the Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF42 5PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001620043558
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2020.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 7 June 2020
21 m awayRef 2020622000530
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 September 2014
29 m awayRef 2014621401794
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 5 March 2013
30 m awayRef 2013621300407
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 November 2005
41 m awayRef 2005620142893
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Ford Escort crash on the B4255 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 May 1990
67 m awayRef 1990620B02970
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 21 September 2007
70 m awayRef 2007620171294
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Cinquecento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
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 2001620043558 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rhondda Cynon Taf road accident statistics for 2001.