A472 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 10 November 2011 at 22:50 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on the A472 in Merthyr Tydfil at 22:50 on Thursday 10 November 2011. The 20-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 and the 71-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2011
- Thursday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6626, longitude -3.32044, in the CF46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Treharris.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011620212798
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 472
- Road type
- Roundabout
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4054
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 October 2018.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 22 October 2018
13 m awayRef 2018621801353
Slight
Car crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 December 2019
25 m awayRef 2019621901610
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 June 1995
28 m awayRef 199562A014895
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4254 in Merthyr Tydfil, 5 May 2008
28 m awayRef 2008620179196
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 26 September 2011
28 m awayRef 2011620211772
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 June 2006
28 m awayRef 2006620153152
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
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 2011620212798 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.