A4054 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 25 August 2016 at 07:49 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil at 07:49 on Thursday 25 August 2016. A 47-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
- 25 Aug 2016
- Thursday, 07:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6626, longitude -3.31957, in the CF46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Treharris.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016621601413
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4054
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 June 1993.
Serious
Car crash on the B4254 in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 June 1993
23 m awayRef 199362A015893
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 April 1992
31 m awayRef 1992620A01070
Slight
Bus crash on the B4254 in Merthyr Tydfil, 3 April 1981
31 m awayRef 1981620A01220
Slight
Bus crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 October 1982
31 m awayRef 1982620A04570
Slight
Bus crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 8 October 1981
31 m awayRef 1981620A04360
Serious
Van crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 November 1979
31 m awayRef 1979620A04920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2016621601413 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.