Unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF43 on 9 April 2014 at 19:30 involving a Kia Sportage
A Kia Sportage hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 19:30 on Wednesday 9 April 2014. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2014
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67457, longitude -3.48501, in the CF43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maerdy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ferndale and Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF43 4BH 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
- 2014621400653
- 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
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1996.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 April 1996
11 m awayRef 199662B008696
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 23 February 2004
18 m awayRef 2004620104751
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 December 1996
21 m awayRef 199662B062796
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 9 March 2007
21 m awayRef 2007620164837
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 23 March 2003
21 m awayRef 2003620081854
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 May 2006
21 m awayRef 2006620151593
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Sportage)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2014621400653 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.