Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 21 January 2009 at 13:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 13:30 on Wednesday 21 January 2009. A 12-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 21 Jan 2009
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71183, longitude -3.34764, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plymouth, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 4TP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009620187143
- 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
- Authorised person
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2025.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 8 April 2025
14 m awayRef 2025622500273
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 6 April 2011
14 m awayRef 2011620208535
Slight
Van crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 April 1982
22 m awayRef 1982620A01570
Slight
Car crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 September 1980
22 m awayRef 1980620A04100
Slight
Car crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 November 1980
22 m awayRef 1980620A04950
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 3 June 1991
22 m awayRef 1991620A02100
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2009620187143 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 2009.