B4273 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 5 January 2018 at 00:56 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B4273 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 00:56 on Friday 5 January 2018. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2018
- Friday, 00:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61802, longitude -3.32858, in the CF37 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glyn-coch, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF37 3BW 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
- 2018621800053
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 4273
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 October 2002.
Serious
Car crash on the B4273 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 9 October 2002
17 m awayRef 2002620073085
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4273 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 March 1989
45 m awayRef 1989620B06940
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4273 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 November 1991
82 m awayRef 1991620B05830
Slight
Car crash on the B4273 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 3 September 1989
125 m awayRef 1989620B20250
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4273 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 22 January 2012
133 m awayRef 2012620214266
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the B4273 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 3 April 2006
140 m awayRef 2006620149972
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2018621800053 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 2018.