B4285 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 14 July 2011 at 16:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil at 16:00 on Thursday 14 July 2011. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2011
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69165, longitude -3.34371, in the CF48 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Merthyr Vale, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 4NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011620210261
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4285
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 January 1982
36 m awayRef 1982620A00230
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 March 1983
36 m awayRef 1983620A04210
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 July 2000
41 m awayRef 2000620019976
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 September 1994
54 m awayRef 199462A037294
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 June 1979
73 m awayRef 1979620A02200
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4285 in Merthyr Tydfil, 1 October 2013
117 m awayRef 2013621301752
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 2011620210261 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 2011.