Serious A470 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 23 August 2010 at 00:10 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 00:10 on Monday 23 August 2010. The 20-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 2010
- Monday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63842, longitude -3.32769, in the CF45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abercynon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abercynon, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF45 4SH 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
- 2010620202805
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 470
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 January 2014.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 17 January 2014
14 m awayRef 2014621400082
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 February 2013
14 m awayRef 2013621300298
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 December 2007
22 m awayRef 2007620174336
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 26 June 2001
28 m awayRef 2001620039158
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 9 December 2004
30 m awayRef 2004620123935
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 16 December 2025
34 m awayRef 2025622500829
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2010620202805 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 2010.