A4061 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 29 April 2003 at 15:00 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 15:00 on Tuesday 29 April 2003. The 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2003
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes ML Class and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65683, longitude -3.50807, in the CF42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Treorchy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF42 6NL 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
- 2003620084890
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 4061
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2002.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 May 2002
At the same spotRef 2002620063407
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 10 September 2023
9 m awayRef 2023622300759
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199662B024796
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199862B059998
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 January 1993
10 m awayRef 199362P000593
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 January 2006
14 m awayRef 2006620145717
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,688 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2003620084890 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 2003.