Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF46 on 23 October 2012 at 10:25 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 10:25 on Tuesday 23 October 2012. The 32-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2012
- Tuesday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Matiz and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69975, longitude -3.31081, in the CF46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012621201192
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4255
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil, 15 March 2008
At the same spotRef 2008620177693
Slight
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 July 1994
22 m awayRef 199462A019694
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 October 1996
50 m awayRef 199662A021496
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 October 2002
81 m awayRef 2002620070065
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 June 1989
114 m awayRef 1989620A09350
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 July 1989
114 m awayRef 1989620A10790
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2012621201192 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.