Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 6 December 2006 at 17:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 17:10 on Wednesday 6 December 2006. A 73-year-old female 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
- 6 Dec 2006
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76702, longitude -3.38827, in the CF47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 9EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006620161547
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 January 1979
10 m awayRef 1979620A00120
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 1 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983620A15800
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 4 December 1996
14 m awayRef 199662A025796
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 September 1996
14 m awayRef 199662A020496
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 May 2004
22 m awayRef 2004620109409
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199962A019099
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 2006620161547 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 2006.