Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF48 on 12 February 2018 at 09:23 involving a Renault Modus
A Renault Modus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 09:23 on Monday 12 February 2018. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2018
- Monday, 09:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Modus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75472, longitude -3.40536, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018621800188
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1997.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 9 September 1997
2 m awayRef 199762A011897
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 27 April 1997
13 m awayRef 199762A005297
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 13 July 1998
20 m awayRef 199862A010198
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 January 2001
28 m awayRef 2001620029903
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 October 2022
29 m awayRef 2022622200817
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 14 July 1999
30 m awayRef 199962A012399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Modus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Modus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2018621800188 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 2018.