A465 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 9 October 2010 at 15:14 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A465 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 15:14 on Saturday 9 October 2010. The 26-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic and a 21-year-old female passenger in the Honda Civic 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 Oct 2010
- Saturday, 15:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76683, longitude -3.33478, in the CF48 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dowlais and Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 3PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010620204113
- 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
- 465
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2010.
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A465 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 30 October 2010
At the same spotRef 2010620204603
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 3 March 2011
At the same spotRef 2011620209358
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 November 1999
At the same spotRef 1999620007518
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 March 2012
At the same spotRef 2012620215382
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 5 August 2005
At the same spotRef 2005620137414
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the A465 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 September 2011
At the same spotRef 2011620211750
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 2010620204113 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.