Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 11 June 2008 at 12:39 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 12:39 on Wednesday 11 June 2008. A 33-year-old female passenger in the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 2008
- Wednesday, 12:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76736, longitude -3.36639, in the CF47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 9YJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008620180285
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2018.
Slight
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Slight
Renault Master crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 April 2019
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 February 2015
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Serious
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 July 2014
21 m awayRef 2014621401318
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 29 April 2010
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2008620180285 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 2008.