Serious unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 27 October 2012 at 16:23 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 16:23 on Saturday 27 October 2012. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76054, longitude -3.36575, in the CF47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 9YJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012621201211
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 26 April 2009
10 m awayRef 2009620189335
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 6 December 2000
10 m awayRef 2000620028082
Slight
Fiat crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 April 2005
14 m awayRef 2005620129669
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 10 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199662A004996
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 3 October 1995
40 m awayRef 199562A025095
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 29 December 1995
41 m awayRef 199562A034895
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2012621201211 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.