Serious A4233 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 25 April 2018 at 08:22 involving a Mazda 2
A Mazda 2 hit a pedestrian on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 08:22 on Wednesday 25 April 2018. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Apr 2018
- Wednesday, 08:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.669, longitude -3.47437, in the CF43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maerdy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ferndale and Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF43 4BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018621800402
- 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
- 4233
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 November 2000.
Serious
Minibus crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 November 2000
6 m awayRef 2000620024762
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 June 1990
10 m awayRef 1990620B03580
Slight
Car crash on the A4116 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 16 October 1995
11 m awayRef 199562P020895
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 January 2003
12 m awayRef 2003620078792
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1 October 2003
12 m awayRef 2003620096048
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 3 April 1997
14 m awayRef 199762B017097
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 2)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2018621800402 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.