A4054 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 21 July 2012 at 17:30 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil at 17:30 on Saturday 21 July 2012. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2012
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73602, longitude -3.37095, in the CF47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 0YA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012621200629
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4054
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 19 March 2015
11 m awayRef 2015621500511
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 19 October 1993
28 m awayRef 199362A025393
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 September 1984
50 m awayRef 1984620A12370
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Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 27 November 1988
50 m awayRef 1988620A18000
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 September 1990
50 m awayRef 1990620A03380
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 30 November 1990
50 m awayRef 1990620A04920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, 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 2012621200629 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 2012.