A470 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 29 October 2013 at 03:39 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 03:39 on Tuesday 29 October 2013. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2013
- Tuesday, 03:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55957, longitude -3.26927, in the CF15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Taff's Well, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF15 7SN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013621301938
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 470
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2001.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 29 November 2001
10 m awayRef 2001620048829
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 3 November 1985
14 m awayRef 1985620B20790
Slight
Van crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 June 1985
14 m awayRef 1985620B11200
Serious
Van crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 July 1983
14 m awayRef 1983620B18380
Slight
Lorry crash on the A468 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 April 1985
14 m awayRef 1985620B06100
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 March 1987
14 m awayRef 1987620B06460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2013621301938 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rhondda Cynon Taf road accident statistics for 2013.