Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF46 on 15 April 2007 at 14:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 14:20 on Sunday 15 April 2007. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 15 Apr 2007
- Sunday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65863, longitude -3.31339, in the CF46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007620165568
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 April 1996, ref 199662A016196
58 m awayRef 199662A016196
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 November 1991
78 m awayRef 1991620A03970
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 May 1993
143 m awayRef 199362A012993
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 April 1996, ref 199662A011596
153 m awayRef 199662A011596
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 September 1979
168 m awayRef 1979620A03530
Serious
Van crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 August 2014
213 m awayRef 2014621401458
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2007620165568 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 2007.