A4102 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 20 January 2017 at 14:21 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 crashed on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil at 14:21 on Friday 20 January 2017. The 23-year-old female driver and a 1-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2017
- Friday, 14:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75046, longitude -3.38838, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 1HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621700151
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4102
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4054
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 1996.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 December 1996
9 m awayRef 199662A025196
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 21 July 2023
10 m awayRef 2023622300658
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 11 October 2017
13 m awayRef 2017621701421
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 8 October 2018
16 m awayRef 2018621801578
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 24 April 1993
17 m awayRef 199362A009893
Slight
Volvo 480 crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 31 October 1996
17 m awayRef 199662A022596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017621700151 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.