Serious unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF72 on 24 April 2004 at 09:40 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 09:40 on Saturday 24 April 2004. An 80-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Apr 2004
- Saturday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5387, longitude -3.46335, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llanharan.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004620108996
- 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
- Rural
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 March 2010
20 m awayRef 2010620199526
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 22 July 1993
22 m awayRef 199362B017993
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 17 April 1985
22 m awayRef 1985620B07010
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 7 March 1979
22 m awayRef 1979620B01260
Slight
Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 10 July 2011
22 m awayRef 2011620209980
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 October 1983
22 m awayRef 1983620B20250
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2004620108996 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 2004.