Unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF40 on 24 July 2003 at 15:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 15:45 on Thursday 24 July 2003. A 9-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 24 Jul 2003
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60907, longitude -3.44439, in the CF40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tonypandy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pen-y-graig, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF40 1SU 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
- 2003620090718
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 July 1996
10 m awayRef 199662B031496
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 February 1996
10 m awayRef 199662P002796
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4119 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 30 October 1998
20 m awayRef 199862B049798
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4119 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 10 March 1990
22 m awayRef 1990620B01480
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 January 2004
28 m awayRef 2004620102389
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 10 March 1991
30 m awayRef 1991620B01350
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2003620090718 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.