A4060 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 4 July 2018 at 10:29 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil at 10:29 on Wednesday 4 July 2018. The 34-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2018
- Wednesday, 10:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76007, longitude -3.34149, in the CF48 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dowlais and Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 3PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018621800842
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4060
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 1995.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 7 October 1995
29 m awayRef 199562A025495
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 November 2005
29 m awayRef 2005620141573
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 6 April 2023
56 m awayRef 2023622300319
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 28 February 2019
61 m awayRef 2019621900295
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 1 January 2010
62 m awayRef 2010620196487
Slight
Car crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 2 December 1989
73 m awayRef 1989620A19750
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018621800842 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.