Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 25 January 2013 at 19:53 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 19:53 on Friday 25 January 2013. A 33-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2013
- Friday, 19:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76145, longitude -3.34883, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dowlais and Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 3PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013621300274
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 October 1995
10 m awayRef 199562A027495
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 February 1997
32 m awayRef 199762A002097
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 2 July 1995
36 m awayRef 199562A015995
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 June 2006
36 m awayRef 2006620152820
Slight
Car crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 1 August 1985
41 m awayRef 1985620A09380
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 30 January 1994
41 m awayRef 199462A002194
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2013621300274 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 2013.