Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 23 April 2004 at 01:17 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 01:17 on Friday 23 April 2004. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2004
- Friday, 01:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7646, longitude -3.35674, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 9YJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004620107687
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2002.
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 December 2002
14 m awayRef 2002620073226
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 November 2018
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Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 October 2025
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Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 June 1999
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 April 2000
22 m awayRef 2000620014121
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 May 2000
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2004620107687 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 2004.