Unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF15 on 20 April 2018 at 14:21 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 14:21 on Friday 20 April 2018. The 42-year-old male cyclist 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
- 20 Apr 2018
- Friday, 14:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54651, longitude -3.26749, in the CF15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Taff's Well. It is one of the crashes that make up the Taff's Well, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF15 7JJ 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
- 2018621800469
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 21 May 1979
31 m awayRef 1979620B02880
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 March 1987, ref 1987620B06470
70 m awayRef 1987620B06470
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 June 1980
70 m awayRef 1980620B03880
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 March 1987, ref 1987620B06480
70 m awayRef 1987620B06480
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 14 November 2000
74 m awayRef 2000620025299
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A470 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 20 March 2014
87 m awayRef 2014621400523
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 42, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2018621800469 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.