A4058 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 19 January 2008 at 22:50 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A4058 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 22:50 on Saturday 19 January 2008. The 34-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 2008
- Saturday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61513, longitude -3.41222, in the CF39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Porth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF39 9PL 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
- 2008620175656
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 4058
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4233
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A4058 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 26 October 1989
At the same spotRef 1989620B25060
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 26 April 1991
14 m awayRef 1991620B02400
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 April 2023
18 m awayRef 2023622300334
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4058 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 October 2004
20 m awayRef 2004620118442
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A4058 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 7 June 1996
20 m awayRef 199662B021296
Slight
Lada Samara crash on the A4054 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 7 July 1990
20 m awayRef 1990620B04250
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2008620175656 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 2008.