A4222 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 8 April 2014 at 10:21 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 10:21 on Tuesday 8 April 2014. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2014
- Tuesday, 10:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52926, longitude -3.39127, 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
- 2014621400665
- 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
- 4222
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 December 2003.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 15 December 2003
13 m awayRef 2003620101066
Slight
Car crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 August 1999
19 m awayRef 199962B041299
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 September 2002
48 m awayRef 2002620070519
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1 October 2001
53 m awayRef 2001620046494
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 January 2011
89 m awayRef 2011620206664
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 17 May 2014
102 m awayRef 2014621400890
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 2014621400665 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.