Unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF44 on 18 December 2004 at 23:55 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 23:55 on Saturday 18 December 2004. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Impreza and car
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71064, longitude -3.44762, in the CF44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdare. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF44 7AB 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
- 2004620124276
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1981.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 16 July 1981
28 m awayRef 1981620B04330
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 March 2004
50 m awayRef 2004620108818
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 30 March 2009
54 m awayRef 2009620188213
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 June 1993
58 m awayRef 199362A014893
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 26 August 2002
58 m awayRef 2002620066434
Slight
DAF Trucks Fat 75CF crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 22 February 2009
58 m awayRef 2009620187230
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2004620124276 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.