A4222 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 24 January 2014 at 07:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 07:40 on Friday 24 January 2014. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2014
- Friday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52205, longitude -3.39236, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontyclun. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pontyclun Central, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF72 9UB 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
- 2014621400360
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4222
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 2012.
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 December 2012
3 m awayRef 2012621201649
Slight
Kia Carens crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 August 2013
3 m awayRef 2013621301395
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 29 November 2004
8 m awayRef 2004620123440
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 October 1997
11 m awayRef 199762B055197
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A4223 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 October 1991
18 m awayRef 1991620B05460
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 November 2014
24 m awayRef 2014621402110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2014621400360 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 2014.