A4054 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 6 August 2015 at 15:57 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil at 15:57 on Thursday 6 August 2015. The 67-year-old male driver 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
- 6 Aug 2015
- Thursday, 15:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71521, longitude -3.34689, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Troedyrhiw and Pentrebach. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plymouth, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 4TP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621501331
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4054
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2023.
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 March 2023
5 m awayRef 2023622300259
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 15 October 1998
11 m awayRef 199862A015198
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 19 November 1994
20 m awayRef 199462A032294
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 3 September 2000
42 m awayRef 2000620021694
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 22 May 1997
43 m awayRef 199762A006097
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 May 2013
47 m awayRef 2013621300869
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015621501331 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merthyr Tydfil road accident statistics for 2015.