B4275 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 8 September 2015 at 11:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 11:20 on Tuesday 8 September 2015. A 59-year-old female passenger and a 77-year-old female passenger were 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 Sep 2015
- Tuesday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67645, longitude -3.37259, in the CF45 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF45 3HD 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
- 2015621501522
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 4275
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 1993.
Slight
MG Montego crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 January 1993
12 m awayRef 199362A000493
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 August 2003
34 m awayRef 2003620092591
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 5 June 1994
38 m awayRef 199462A020894
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 20 November 1996
42 m awayRef 199662B056996
Slight
Fiat crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 14 August 2001
42 m awayRef 2001620041101
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 17 August 1996
42 m awayRef 199662B035496
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 77, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 2015621501522 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 2015.