Serious M4 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 4 November 2013 at 00:24 involving a Lexus IS200
A Lexus IS200 crashed on the M4 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 00:24 on Monday 4 November 2013. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Nov 2013
- Monday, 00:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexus IS200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51236, longitude -3.36567, in the CF72 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontyclun Central, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF72 8ND area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013621301978
- 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
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M4 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 April 2013
10 m awayRef 2013621300686
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M4 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 March 2005
20 m awayRef 2005620131278
Slight
Ford KA crash on the M4 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 23 December 2005
22 m awayRef 2005620145414
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M4 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 January 1998
22 m awayRef 199862B003398
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the M4 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 21 June 2019
41 m awayRef 2019621900861
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the M4 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 December 2025
43 m awayRef 2025622500823
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexus IS200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lexus IS200)
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 2013621301978 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.