A4233 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 1 October 2018 at 15:38 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 hit a pedestrian on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 15:38 on Monday 1 October 2018. A 13-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 1 Oct 2018
- Monday, 15:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66917, longitude -3.47478, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018621801294
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 February 2012.
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 15 February 2012
18 m awayRef 2012620214591
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 12 May 2001
21 m awayRef 2001620037337
Slight
Car crash on the A4116 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 16 October 1995
24 m awayRef 199562P020895
Serious
Minibus crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 November 2000
30 m awayRef 2000620024762
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 3 December 2025
30 m awayRef 2025622500837
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 June 1990
34 m awayRef 1990620B03580
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A1)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2018621801294 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.