A4233 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 8 May 2019 at 00:05 involving a Suzuki Jimny
A Suzuki Jimny hit a pedestrian on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 00:05 on Wednesday 8 May 2019. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2019
- Wednesday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Jimny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67117, longitude -3.48001, 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
- 2019621900633
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 1992.
Slight
Car crash on the B4277 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992620P00490
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 17 February 1996
21 m awayRef 199662P003196
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 29 June 1994
35 m awayRef 199462P014194
Serious
Car crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 14 November 1997
35 m awayRef 199762B061497
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4233 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 April 1992
40 m awayRef 1992620P00600
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 25 July 2008
56 m awayRef 2008620181567
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Jimny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Jimny)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2019621900633 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 2019.