A4060 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 3 November 2009 at 16:26 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil at 16:26 on Tuesday 3 November 2009. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2009
- Tuesday, 16:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72831, longitude -3.36116, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plymouth, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 4BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009620194885
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4060
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 December 2009
14 m awayRef 2009620196777
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 3 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006620161026
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 April 2009
22 m awayRef 2009620188728
Serious
MAN/VW crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 18 August 1993
28 m awayRef 199362A019693
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 19 October 2009
30 m awayRef 2009620194408
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 22 November 1996
36 m awayRef 199662A024696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2009620194885 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.