Serious A4222 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 17 May 2014 at 02:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 02:15 on Saturday 17 May 2014. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 2014
- Saturday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52836, longitude -3.39104, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014621400890
- 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
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 473
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2013.
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 4 August 2013
33 m awayRef 2013621301318
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1 October 2001
50 m awayRef 2001620046494
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1 October 1994
55 m awayRef 199462B023494
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 4 August 2014
68 m awayRef 2014621401443
Slight
Car crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 February 1988
70 m awayRef 1988620B03840
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 April 2014
71 m awayRef 2014621400721
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, 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 2014621400890 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.