Serious B4595 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 14 January 2009 at 02:15 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B4595 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 02:15 on Wednesday 14 January 2009. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jan 2009
- Wednesday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5376, longitude -3.38329, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Talbot Green. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llantrisant and Talbot Green, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF72 8RD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009620186037
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 4595
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 21 October 1995
10 m awayRef 199562B030795
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 12 June 2017
12 m awayRef 2017621700899
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 17 March 2010
14 m awayRef 2010620199693
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B4595 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 31 May 2007
14 m awayRef 2007620167235
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 September 2008
14 m awayRef 2008620183488
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 3 October 1995
14 m awayRef 199562B029795
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2009620186037 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 2009.