B4255 crash in Merthyr Tydfil on 12 March 2019 at 14:07 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil at 14:07 on Tuesday 12 March 2019. The 67-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2019
- Tuesday, 14:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68822, longitude -3.29847, in the CF46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Merthyr Tydfil
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019621900345
- Council area
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4255
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
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, 82 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 September 1979.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Merthyr Tydfil, 25 September 1979
82 m awayRef 1979620A03880
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil, 12 May 2001
88 m awayRef 2001620036862
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 April 2023
116 m awayRef 2023622300323
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil, 24 June 2012
132 m awayRef 2012621200436
Slight
Car crash on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil, 1 January 1982
133 m awayRef 1982620A00030
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4255 in Merthyr Tydfil, 16 May 1991
133 m awayRef 1991620A01810
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2019621900345 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 2019.