A4233 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 15 October 2008 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 18:00 on Wednesday 15 October 2008. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2008
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71154, longitude -3.44736, in the CF44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberdare. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF44 7AB 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
- 2008620183706
- 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
- 4233
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 5 November 2005
14 m awayRef 2005620141183
Slight
Bus crash on the B4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 July 1988
20 m awayRef 1988620B16110
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 April 1979
20 m awayRef 1979620B01950
Slight
Car crash on the B4277 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 20 June 1983
20 m awayRef 1983620B12200
Slight
Car crash on the B4277 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 26 January 1986
20 m awayRef 1986620B02020
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 November 1979
20 m awayRef 1979620B07530
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2008620183706 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.