Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 5 April 2017 at 17:14 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 17:14 on Wednesday 5 April 2017. An 8-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
- 5 Apr 2017
- Wednesday, 17:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75543, longitude -3.40368, in the CF48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 2RB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621700565
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 65 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 27 December 1989
65 m awayRef 1989620A21520
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 November 1994
102 m awayRef 199462A033294
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 8 April 1979
115 m awayRef 1979620A01270
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 January 2001
117 m awayRef 2001620029903
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 14 July 1999
124 m awayRef 199962A012399
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 September 1984
126 m awayRef 1984620A12720
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2017621700565 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.