Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 17 June 2016 at 17:16 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 17:16 on Friday 17 June 2016. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was 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
- 17 Jun 2016
- Friday, 17:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76347, longitude -3.37591, 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 9RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016621601040
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 13 April 2002.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 April 2002
12 m awayRef 2002620057465
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 November 2007
20 m awayRef 2007620173044
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 4 December 2004
46 m awayRef 2004620122269
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 July 1996
55 m awayRef 199662A017696
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 19 April 1983
55 m awayRef 1983620A05770
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 31 July 2011
57 m awayRef 2011620210503
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016621601040 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 2016.