Unclassified road crash in Merthyr Tydfil CF47 on 7 February 2018 at 11:50 involving a Hyundai i20
A Hyundai i20 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil at 11:50 on Wednesday 7 February 2018. A 71-year-old female pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2018
- Wednesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i20
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7468, longitude -3.3781, in the CF47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Town, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018621800630
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2007.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 June 2007
4 m awayRef 2007620168182
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A4102 in Merthyr Tydfil, 3 March 2001
4 m awayRef 2001620031961
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 14 November 2018
6 m awayRef 2018621801474
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Merthyr Tydfil, 20 July 1996
8 m awayRef 199662A017096
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 27 July 2000
13 m awayRef 2000620020320
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 5 November 1993
15 m awayRef 199362A026393
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i20
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai i20)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018621800630 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.