A4054 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 10 January 2017 at 09:19 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil at 09:19 on Tuesday 10 January 2017. The 25-year-old male driver 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
- 10 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 09:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66341, longitude -3.32547, 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
- 2017621700098
- 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
- Rural
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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 February 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 February 1980
22 m awayRef 1980620A00600
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 November 1987
28 m awayRef 1987620A16640
Fatal
Ford Orion crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 4 May 1995
45 m awayRef 199562A010395
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 April 2012
99 m awayRef 2012621200021
Serious
Car crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 17 June 1989
101 m awayRef 1989620A09630
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4054 in Merthyr Tydfil, 18 December 2001
103 m awayRef 2001620051378
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2017621700098 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 2017.