Serious B4275 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 3 September 2015 at 08:42 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 08:42 on Thursday 3 September 2015. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Sep 2015
- Thursday, 08:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6751, longitude -3.37112, in the CF45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mountain Ash. 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621501557
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2022.
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 3 December 2022
6 m awayRef 2022622200930
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 September 2006
18 m awayRef 2006620158059
Slight
Bus crash on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 December 1993
30 m awayRef 199362A030893
Slight
Car crash on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 October 2019
57 m awayRef 2019622000064
Slight
Car crash on the B4275 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 23 July 1979
61 m awayRef 1979620B04290
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 February 2001
83 m awayRef 2001620033083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2015621501557 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.