Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 4 June 2010 at 18:05 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 and a Dennis bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 18:05 on Friday 4 June 2010. A 58-year-old female passenger in the Dennis bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 2010
- Friday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 25 and Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70652, longitude -3.34068, 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
- 2010620201565
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 March 2012
At the same spotRef 2012620215531
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 April 2010
14 m awayRef 2010620199706
Serious
Bus crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 July 1981
45 m awayRef 1981620A02910
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 4 January 2003
50 m awayRef 2003620075381
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 October 2009
58 m awayRef 2009620194283
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 15 December 1990
63 m awayRef 1990620A05130
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 2010620201565 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.