A4222 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 6 September 2017 at 12:15 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 12:15 on Wednesday 6 September 2017. An 81-year-old female 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
- 6 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53169, longitude -3.39052, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontyclun. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llantrisant and Talbot Green, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF72 8RD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017621701336
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4222
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1997.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 21 March 1997
7 m awayRef 199762B012697
Slight
Bus crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 October 1989
14 m awayRef 1989620B23290
Slight
Volvo 460 crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 May 1998
22 m awayRef 199862B023198
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 7 June 2011
24 m awayRef 2011620209496
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 April 1996
34 m awayRef 199662B008596
Serious
Honda CBF125M crash on the A4222 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 20 April 2016
34 m awayRef 2016621600707
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017621701336 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rhondda Cynon Taf road accident statistics for 2017.