A4060 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 10 July 2018 at 21:38 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil at 21:38 on Tuesday 10 July 2018. The 24-year-old male 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
- 10 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 21:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76067, longitude -3.34013, 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
- 2018621801178
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 1996.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 24 May 1996
9 m awayRef 199662A013796
Slight
Car crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 23 December 1987
37 m awayRef 1987620A18270
Slight
Car crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 1 September 1989
37 m awayRef 1989620A13700
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 1 January 2010
59 m awayRef 2010620196487
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 November 2005
94 m awayRef 2005620141573
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A4060 in Merthyr Tydfil, 4 July 2018
115 m awayRef 2018621800842
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018621801178 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.