A4061 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 29 September 2015 at 00:01 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 00:01 on Tuesday 29 September 2015. The 26-year-old male driver and a 29-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2015
- Tuesday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66238, longitude -3.51084, in the CF42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Treorchy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF42 6NL 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
- 2015621501650
- 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
- 4061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2007.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4058 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 15 April 2007
6 m awayRef 2007620165750
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 February 1998
9 m awayRef 199862B008198
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 5 March 1995
9 m awayRef 199562P005995
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 February 1990
10 m awayRef 1990620B00960
Serious
Renault Captur crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 January 2025
13 m awayRef 2025622500051
Serious
Opel Manta crash on the A4058 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 15 May 1997
13 m awayRef 199762B025697
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 2015621501650 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.