Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 21 November 2005 at 15:51 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 15:51 on Monday 21 November 2005. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2005
- Monday, 15:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68049, longitude -3.336, in the CF48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005620142540
- 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
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2000.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 29 September 2000
36 m awayRef 2000620022813
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 February 1990
36 m awayRef 1990620A00670
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 24 January 1985
36 m awayRef 1985620A00890
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 June 1989
36 m awayRef 1989620A09400
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 November 1982
73 m awayRef 1982620A05160
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 19 April 1996
73 m awayRef 199662A010396
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 2005620142540 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 2005.