A4054 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 9 April 2010 at 17:24 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil at 17:24 on Friday 9 April 2010. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 17-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2010
- Friday, 17:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7066, longitude -3.34083, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010620199706
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4054
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 March 2012
14 m awayRef 2012620215531
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 4 June 2010
14 m awayRef 2010620201565
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 October 2009
45 m awayRef 2009620194283
Serious
Bus crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 July 1981
58 m awayRef 1981620A02910
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 15 December 1990
58 m awayRef 1990620A05130
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 29 October 1980
58 m awayRef 1980620A04750
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2010620199706 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 2010.