Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 10 October 2015 at 22:22 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 22:22 on Saturday 10 October 2015. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2015
- Saturday, 22:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76425, longitude -3.39279, in the CF47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 9EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621501765
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2016.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 27 August 2016
11 m awayRef 2016621601408
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 December 1984
21 m awayRef 1984620A17340
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 24 February 1990
21 m awayRef 1990620A00600
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 March 1984
21 m awayRef 1984620A04350
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 14 May 2009
34 m awayRef 2009620189787
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 6 February 1995
47 m awayRef 199562A003095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2015621501765 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.